The European Parliament's environment committee says EU nations should offer at least ⁈lion ($45 billion) in aid to help poor nations cope with climate change.That figure is double what the EU's executive commission suggests the 27-nation bloc should donate to get poorer countries to sign up to a global pact to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
EU finance ministers are debating how much they are willing to pay at talks in Luxembourg. Many EU nations are against doling out new cash amid the financial crisis.
Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said Tuesday that negotiations on a new global emissions-cutting deal have to be pushed "into a higher gear." Carlgren heads up the EU's climate change negotiating team.
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