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Stage set for conflict at Cop28 with mixed response to outcome of key climate talks
A villager holding umbrella to protect himself from sun, walks over parched land on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India on May 2, 2009

TENSE negotiations at the final meeting on an international fund to help poor countries hit the hardest by climate change ended on Saturday in Abu Dhabi.

Participants agreed that the World Bank would host the fund for the next four years.

But, the US and several developing countries expressed disappointment in the draft agreement, which will be sent for global leaders to sign at the Cop28 climate conference in Dubai later this month.

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