Climate aid threat to countries that refuse to back Copenhagen accord
The pressure on poor countries to support the US, EU and UK-brokered Copenhagen accord came as 190 countries resumed UN climate talks in Bonn in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion.
“The pressure to back the west has been intense,” said a senior African diplomat. “It was done at a very high level and nothing was written down. It was made very clear by the EU, UK, France and the US that if they did not back them then they would suffer.”
According to other African climate diplomats, threats to cut aid were accompanied by promises of financial support for countries that complied…
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