[rlmorel]

"...If the United States refuses to finance climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, then industrialized countries will have a hard time keeping their promise to offer $100 billion in climate finance every year from 2020...

They say that like it is a bad thing!

Of course, my feeling is, if European countries want to take it on themselves to simply transfer wealth to third world countries run by tyrants who will happily accept it and pissing it away without any benefit to their own country...then I am good with that.

As long as they don't insist US taxpayer monies are used in the same fashion, I say go for it. A fool and their money are soon parted...:)

[Sacajaweau]

I believe Obama already gave them a HUGE down payment.