'An inflexion point': Paris Summit sketches out roadmap for ambitious climate finance reform

James Murray
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Meeting delivers encouraging progress, but campaigners warn urgent action now needed to deliver 'taboo-busting' reforms to international financial architecture

The Summit for a New Financial Pact in Paris officially closed this afternoon, with observers hailing the meeting as a "first step" towards reforming a financial system that remains "unfair and inadequate"...

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