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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
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Poor nations may have to downgrade climate cash demands, ex-UN envoy says

Activists at the Cop29 summit.
Activists at the Cop29 summit. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Poor countries may have to compromise on demands for cash to tackle global heating, a former UN climate envoy has said, as UN talks entered their final hours in deadlock.

In comments that are likely to disappoint poorer countries at the Cop29 summit, Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and twice a UN climate envoy, said rich country budgets were stretched amid inflation, Covid and conflicts including Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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