Talks on ‘Green Climate Fund’ postponed

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PARIS — A first meeting to set down the ground rules of a fund to channel hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries exposed to climate change has been postponed, a UN official said on Thursday.

Representatives from 40 countries had been scheduled to meet in Mexico City on March 14 and 15 for the maiden meeting of a panel designed to breathe life into the Green Climate Fund (GCF) established last December.

"The meeting has been postponed," a spokesman for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) told AFP by phone from Bonn, adding he had no immediate further details.