UN climate fund releases $183m to tackle global warming
by Karl Mathiesen from on (#ST58)
Green Climate Fund announces eight projects to be funded in Asia, Africa and Latin America ahead of Paris summit
The head of the UN's climate fund has hailed a "paradigm shift" as poor countries began receiving money to help them tackle global warming, weeks before climate talks take place in Paris.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is intended to be the major conduit for funding to flow from wealthy economies built on fossil fuels to those that will suffer most from climate change they did not cause.
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