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Climate finance group meeting this month: British PM
The first meeting of a group which will help poor countries finance efforts to tackle the effects of climate change will be held in London this month, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday. Brown announced that the Climate Finance Group established by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will meet in London on March 31. The British premier is co-chairing it with his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi. The group was set up in the wake of December's climate summit in Copenhagen which adopted a document most scientists and green groups say falls well short of the steps needed to fight global warming. The Copenhagen summit agreed that 100 billion dollars (74 billion euros) a year of public and private finance will be needed by 2020 to help developing countries. All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.
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