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Poor nations dismayed by looming climate aid gap

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Reuters reports that although leaders at the Copenhagen summit in 2009 pledged to raise $100 billion in annual aid by 2020 to help developing countries to fight effects of climate change, with the economic crisis concrete figures are avoided.

"Finance is key to agreeing on a package at Doha," said Pa Ousman Jarju of Gambia, chair of the 48-nation group of least developed countries. He added that he hoped that the US would renew its action on climate change after Obama's re-election...

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