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Climate Talks Stall as $100 Billion Still Out of Sight

  • Developing nations say work slowed by lack of funding clarity
  • Richer nations want transparency from poorer ones on pollution
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Two weeks of climate talks organized by the United Nations finished with developing countries demanding more clarity from their richer counterparts on when a promised package of $100 billion in finance will materialize.

Envoys from almost 200 nations are leaving Bonn, Germany, on Thursday without producing a draft negotiating text for ministers to discuss at the end of the year. Instead, they planned another round of negotiations in Bangkok before their annual conference in Poland in December.