Green Climate Fund will get $200m from Australia after Tony Abbott's about-turn
Prime minister had previously disparaged the international fund designed to help poor countries adapt to climate change, and said Australia would not contribute
The federal government has pledged $200m over four years from its existing aid budget to the international Green Climate Fund, which Tony Abbott previously disparaged as a "Bob Brown bank on an international...
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