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MLex Comment: EC’s backtracking on climate finance is an attempt to conceal negotiating position and appear less generous

By Emma Portier Davis and Peter Koh ( September 9, 2009, 13:53 GMT | Insight) -- The European Commission’s apparent backtracking on climate finance for developing countries to fight global warming results from pressure within European institutions for the bloc to play its cards more closely to its chest. The release of new figures – largely incomparable to previous ones – seems to have achieved the commission’s aim to obfuscate its position and shocked developing countries and environmental groups that had been led to expect more.The European Commission’s apparent backtracking on climate finance for developing countries to fight global warming results from pressure within European institutions for the bloc to play its cards more closely to its chest....

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