Britain and France are proposing to back anti-climate change action with 30 billion dollars via an environmental fund that will be spent during the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday.
"Alongside British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, we are proposing 10 billion dollars a year each of the first three years after Copenhagen," Sarkozy told a press conference in Trinidad and Tobago, where he had flown
to join the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
He said that in the last three days, during which the United States and China had both published proposals for carbon dioxide reduction to be formally decided in Copenhagen, where 192-nations are set to meet to craft an agreement that will replace 1997's Kyoto Protocol.