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Cash is king, and a curse, for UN climate talks

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The deal was a hard-won compromise, and it rescued the talks from near collapse but left the world’s poorest nations feeling even more vulnerable to the growing ravages of climate change.

The deal was a hard-won compromise, and it rescued the talks from near collapse, but left the world’s poorest nations feeling even more vulnerable to the growing ravages of climate change.

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SINGAPORE - In the end, money talks.

In the final hours of the marathon COP29 talks,

the agreement on a US$300 billion (S$404 billion) deal

on Nov 24 was just enough to keep global climate diplomacy alive – an important signal ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025.

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