Rich Nations Failing to Detail Climate Aid Pledges
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Poor nations have been left in the dark on how much finance wealthy countries will provide to help them adapt to the effects of climate change and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the development charity Oxfam said.
While rich countries have pledged a total of $16.3 billion of climate aid for 2013, murky accounting and a lack of transparency mean the actual amount offered is probably closer to $7.6 billion, Oxford, England-based Oxfam said today as two weeks of United Nations climate talks started in Warsaw.