Marrakesh talks tangle over cash to cushion climate impacts for poor

[WorldNews]

By Megan Rowling MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Marrakesh climate talks may not deliver a substantial boost for international funding to help poorer countries cope with the worsening floods, droughts, storms and rising seas brought by climate change, negotiators and development charities fear. A ministerial dialogue at the talks on Wednesday yielded little concrete beyond a few pledges from European countries to adaptation funds set up under the U.N. negotiations, they said. Developing countries have made consistent and impassioned pleas in Marrakesh for more financing to help them adjust to intensifying climate shifts - but so far those pleas have largely fallen on deaf ears, their representatives said.

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