Christian Science Monitor
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To move forward on tackling climate change, rich nations need to win back the trust of developing countries by providing more finance to help them reach their goals of adopting clean energy, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.
As mid-year United Nations climate talks in Bonn stumbled over the issue, Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, told Context industrialized nations must accept their historical responsibility for causing climate change and step up help for other countries to shift off planet-heating fossil fuels.
“In the absence of support, them giving prescriptions to developing countries... ‘do this, don’t do that,’ would be neither productive nor fair,” he said in an interview during a visit to India for discussions ahead of September’s G20 summit.
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