Australia Pledges $165 Million to Green Climate Fund

Australia will contribute A$200 million ($165 million) over four years into a U.N. fund to help poor nations cope with global warming, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said December 10, a major policy reversal. The pledge to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the latest in a string of stinging policy reversals for former climate-change skeptic Abbott, whose struggling conservative government has hit record low approval ratings. Talking to reporters in Melbourne he was asked if this was...

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