• Developing countries will be hit much harder by the effects of
climate change (Photo: Notat)  Africa lowers climate cash
demands to boost Copenhagen deal chances  17.12.09 @ 07:22    1.
By Leigh Phillips  COPENHAGEN - Africa has dramatically scaled
back its demands for funds from rich countries to help deal with
climate change in return for certainty that promised funds will
actually be delivered and for the right to a say in how the
money is managed.  The gambit could lead to breakthrough on a
deal at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen as the issue of
climate finance has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks in
talks, but some developing world leaders accused the African
Union of selling out, with the G77 accusing the EU of being the
real author of the offer and wanting to see the "destruction of
Africa."  Under a proposal presented at the summit by Ethiopian
prime minister and chair of the African group of nations at the
conference Meles Zenawi, Africa will abandon its argument that
public funds from