
Global Leaders Set For Climate Change Talks
Prashant Trivedi
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The world climate change summit in Egypt is to hear from heads of state and government looking to galvanize global action to tackle climate change. <br />Richer nations are to outline their programs for reducing carbon emissions. <br />Poorer countries have welcomed the prospect of a debate on setting up a compensation fund, with the issue included on the agenda for the first time since the United Nations adopted its climate convention. <br />The UN's new climate change chief, Simon Stiell, says there was still time to limit global warming to less than 1.5 degrees since the start of the industrial era - the target adopted at earlier summits