G-20 fails to reach climate deal

Reported by Straits Times on Saturday, 7 November 2009 (on November 7, 2009)

ST ANDREWS (Scotland) - G-20 nations fell short of reaching agreement on climate finance a month before key UN talks, while pledging on Saturday to maintain stimulus measures for a still 'uneven' global economy.The 20 leading economies committed to work for an 'ambitious outcome' at December's vital Copenhagen climate change conference, but could not achieve their goal of agreeing how to distribute funding to poor countries to tackle the problem.

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