Politics, Money Cloud Hopes for Climate Deal

With less than 48 hours to go before a Friday deadline, delegates of 196 countries meeting in a Paris suburb are in a race to reach a wide-reaching climate agreement, but hurdles over money and targets remain large. A 29-page draft of the agreement released on Wednesday shows differences remain substantial, especially on key questions involving the responsibility of richer nations to fund climate-change programs for poorer countries. Core areas of dispute also include the demand by...

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