BRUSSELS (AP) -- EU leaders agreed Friday to commit euro2.4 billion ($3.6 billion) a year until 2012 to help poorer countries combat global warming, as they sought to rescue their image as climate change innovators and bolster the talks in Copenhagen....
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By AOIFE WHITE, Associated Press
Fri, 12/11/2009 - 7:26am
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