{"id":13906,"date":"2012-08-26T03:16:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/un-green-climate-fund-aiding-poor-to-pick-hq-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-08-26T03:16:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:16:41","slug":"un-green-climate-fund-aiding-poor-to-pick-hq-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/un-green-climate-fund-aiding-poor-to-pick-hq-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"UN green climate fund, aiding poor, to pick HQ in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Green Fund board to meet again in October<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Agrees details of operations, no talk yet of cash<\/p>\n

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By Alister Doyle<\/p>\n

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OSLO, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Leaders of a fledgling U.N. green
\nfund agreed at a first meeting on Saturday to pick a
\nheadquarters this year as part of a plan to oversee billions of
\ndollars in aid to help developing nations fight global warming.<\/p>\n

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The three-day meeting in Geneva heard pitches from the six
\ncountries — Germany, Mexico, Namibia, Poland, South Korea and
\nSwitzerland — that want to host the Green Climate Fund, the
\nmain U.N. body due to manage $100 billion in aid from 2020.<\/p>\n

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“This first meeting was a very productive start,” Ewen
\nMcDonald of Australia, a co-chair of the Fund, said in a
\nstatement at the end of the talks among the 24 board members
\nworking on details of how the fund will operate.<\/p>\n

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The board aims to select the host country at a next meeting,
\nset for Oct. 18-20 in South Korea. The choice would then have to
\nbe endorsed by environment ministers at U.N. climate talks in
\nDoha in late November and early December.<\/p>\n

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“It is early days,” Kjetil Lund, deputy Norwegian finance
\nminister and a board member, told Reuters. “We have to get the
\nright set-up first.”<\/p>\n

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Developed nations agreed in 2009 to raise climate aid, now
\nabout $10 billion a year, to an annual $100 billion from 2020 to
\nhelp developing countries curb greenhouse gas emissions and cope
\nwith floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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