EU: Climate Fund Board must get going

As reported by Times Live, the chief climate negotiator for the EU and Poland, Tomasz Chruszczow, was addressing the media on the COP17 climate talks taking place in Durban: "In the context of a satisfactory outcome on the green climate fund as well as the overall package from Durban, we want to see the board start as early as 2012." The next step would be the composition of a board to run the fund, which is meant to help developing countries adapt to climate change. The EU believed the fund would play an essential role in enhancing mitigation and adaptation measures in developing countries.