European Union pushes for more nations to pay to protect nature
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The European Union vowed Tuesday to maintain its push for more countries to fund global conservation, as a dispute over who should pay divides nations at key UN nature talks.
Around two dozen mostly Western nations are formally expected to provide biodiversity finance but the EU wants the list of donors expanded to include wealthy emerging economies like the Gulf states and China.
The push has met resistance at the COP17 biodiversity summit in Armenia, with disagreement over the donor list among the main issues unresolved in the final week of negotiations.
