Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, on Friday called on rich countries to contribute $10bn in emergency climate change funding to the developing world from next year.
At the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Trinidad, he pledged £800m (€882m, $1.3bn) as the UK’s contribution to the fund, which would cover three years from 2010 to 2012. Poor countries say they need stopgap funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the effects of climate change.
