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EU leaders seek to break deadlock on climate aid

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left rear, puts his hand on the shoulder of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, bottom right, during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. EU leaders open a difficult summit, facing an east-west rift over who should pay most to entice developing nations to sign up to a new global climate change pact. Bottom left is French President Nicolas Sarkozy and top right is Malta's Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

BRUSSELS - Trying to forge a united stand on climate change, the 27-nation European Union considered a new proposal Friday that would let poorer eastern members pay less into a climate change aid fund than the bloc's leading countries. Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor

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  1. Europe is making three conditional offers money on the table, saying we will do everything we can to make a climate change agreement happen, and help for developing countries into that agreement ... Now we want other countries to respond to what we're doing.
    Gordon Brown – Gordon Brown SOURCE: To The Center 3 weeks ago
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    Gordon Brown – Gordon Brown SOURCE: KansasCity.com 3 weeks ago
  3. Europe has committed to increasing its overseas aid spending to 0.7% of national income. Climate financing must be in addition to this. If not, rich countries are simply asking the world’s poor to choose between building flood defenses or health centres and schools
    SOURCE: Oxfam 3 weeks ago
  4. We can now look the rest of the world in the eyes and say we Europeans have done our job ... It was essential that the European Union kept its leadership role, and we have done that.
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