EU leaders fail to agree on climate change fund

A ROW over how EU countries should contribute to poorer nations to help them cope with climate change threatened to scupper the union’s chances of agreeing their Copenhagen policy last night.

Germany and a number of other countries believe that the EU should not say how much they are willing to contribute to what will be a multi-billion euro fund for less developed countries.

But Poland and eight other central and eastern European countries want the union to agree how much each country in the EU will provide before deciding what the EU will contribute.