EU economy and finance ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday 11 October, reiterated that the EU and its member states would take their fair share of the $100 billion per year promised by the industrialised countries by 2020 to support mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions) and adaptation to climate change efforts in developing countries.
They restated, too, that would ensure the scaling up of public resources for this purpose. Nonetheless, to the great regret of NGOs, they...