Upfront money needed to ease UN climate deal (AP)

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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2008 file photo, U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer speaks during a news conference in Poznan, Poland. Money on the table could help close a deal in Denmark next month keeping climate talks moving toward a new global treaty in 2010. Too little up front at the U.N.'s Copenhagen conference could be a deal-breaker. The money would help poorer nations cope with ocean flooding, drought and other effects of climate change, and to cut down on their own emissions of global-warming gases. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, File)AP – Money on the table — perhaps $10 billion a year or more — could help close a deal in Denmark next month and keep climate talks moving toward a new global treaty in 2010. But if poorer nations see too little offered up front, the U.N. conference could end in discord.


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