Greenwire: The top U.S. negotiator on climate change has effectively ruled out any new American pledge this year to a U.N. fund for helping poor countries cope with global warming, but vulnerable nations and human rights groups gathered for the climate summit here refuse to accept that.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also called climate finance "critical" in his first press briefing of the summit today.
Pointing to Typhoon Haiyan, which he said puts "an anguished human face" on climate change, he...