As recriminations continue over December’s summit, the United Nations’ climate change forum is due to resume shortly with a ministerial-level meeting planned in Mexico at the end of the year.
The four emerging economies – a key bloc within troubled negotiations on how to tackle global warming – lobbied successfully at the Copenhagen meeting in December against binding emissions caps.
The money must be made available at once “as proof of their commitment to urgently address the global challenge of climate change”, the ministers said.
The accord was a non-binding document crafted by a small group of countries, including the BASIC nations, on the final day of the talks as the meeting faced collapse.
Sunday’s meeting came ahead of a January 31 deadline for countries to say if they intended to be “associated” with the Copenhagen outcome or what sort of measures they envisaged taking.