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Published 10/30/2009 by Yahoo! Canada


EU debates climate fund for developing world

WINNIPEG (CBC) - European Union leaders met Thursday in Belgium to begin talks to determine how much aid they were willing to offer developing countries to bring them into a new climate change pact.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, chair of the two-day summit in Brussels, said the EU's credibility is on...

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