Kerry Says Better Method Needed to Gauge Progress Toward Climate Finance Goal

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Wealthy countries are making progress toward the crucial goal of raising $100 billion in climate finance for developing countries by 2020, but more transparency and a better calculation method is needed, 18 countries and the European Commission said after meeting in Paris. The U.S. and Switzerland hosted senior officials from 18 countries during two days of talks Sept. 5-6 in a "climate finance ministerial," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement. The meeting followed the latest round of United Nations climate negotiations, which wrapped up in Bonn amid signs of compromise emerging on the key issue of loss and damage, but with widespread criticism that negotiations are still moving too slowly (see related story). The U.S.-Swiss-sponsored ministerial also overlapped with a second informal climate ministerial held by France on Sept. 6-7. France said it brought together 57 countries to search for compromises to help produce a final text to be considered at the United Nations climate talks in Paris at year's end.