COP25: Can the US escape climate finance obligations?
By DW
04 January 2020 |
7:13 am
The US decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement is bad for climate action, but what are the implications for international funding? DW spoke to Joe Thwaites, climate finance expert with the World Resources Institute.
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