EU agrees climate-change funding compromise
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Brussels - European Union leaders on Friday reached a compromise on how much money to offer developing countries to fight climate change, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said at the EU summit in Brussels. However, leaders put off a discussion on the details of how to split the bill between member states, she said. The EU wants to seize the initiative in United Nations talks on global warming in Copenhagen in December by becoming the first world power to state how it will help poor countries reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions.
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