Gordon Brown says China must pay into climate fund for poor countries

Gordon Brown said that poor countries are entitled to payments without resorting to a ‘begging bowl’. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

China must pay into a new fund for poor countries stricken by climate-driven disaster on the basis of its high greenhouse gas emissions and large economy, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has said.

“America and Europe will have to provide most, but China will have to contribute more too,” he told the Guardian.