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Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:04 PM

Published 11/07/2009 by Reuters Canada


G20 makes little progress on climate financing

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work toward a $100 billion deal to tackle climate change but developing nations insisted they did not want to talk about it.

Britain is hosting the third meeting of Group of 20 finance...

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