Mexico tells EU to unblock climate funding

Mexico, the host of the next UN climate summit, has called on the EU to release the climate funds for developing countries which it promised at last year's climate conference in Copenhagen.

"The developing world needs to see clear signals to have something in their hands at Cancun," Mexico's environment secretary, Juan Rafael Elvira, told reporters ahead of a meeting with his European counterparts in Brussels on Monday. "The developing countries want to see this money unblocked. Especia...