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Discouraged by the outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit last December as well as how negotiations at the just concluded talks in Bonn in Germany seem to have turned out, developing nations made up of mainly those from Africa are now looking inwards as a way out of the dilemma.

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Africa: Initiating Moves to Climate-Proof Africa

Countries are quietly signing up to the Copenhagen Accord, but commitments on emissions cuts and funding remain unclear.

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Africa: Climate Change – ‘Perhaps We Should Just Sign’

The European Union has failed to provide clarity about where the 7.2 billion euros [1] pledged at Copenhagen for immediate climate finance needs in developing countries will come from.

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Africa: Developing Countries Want Clarity on Climate Change Finance

I remember hearding smething on NPR a few weeks ago about South Africa having decided not to go to Copenhagen. However, I cannot find any detailed information online. I am writing a paper on climate change and would appreciate any help if you know of any good sources.
If South Africa is not going, I imagine it is becuase they don’t expect that the industrial nations will help finance their efforts (as most developing nations believe). I can’t find anything “official” on this though. Thanks!

More than 20 African countries, including Ghana, appear to have betrayed the interest of the Continent by associating with the Copenhagen Accord, which was reached compromisingly at last December’s Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Africa: Nation, 22 Others Betray Africa