EU leaders back global climate funding for developing countries but fail to put their money where their mouth is

At the EU summit today, European leaders backed funding for climate action in developing countries in preparation of global climate talks in Copenhagen in December. But while Europe has put its weight behind global public funding for the developing world of up to €50 billion per year by 2020, it lacked the nerve to commit to the EU’s share of the funding.

On Wednesday 28 October, Greenpeace activists stopped operations for one of the biggest gantries at a transit point where coal is re-loaded from Russian trains onto Polish trains. Russian coal is burnt in Polish power stations causing CO2 pollution.

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