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Mairead McGuinness, the European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union, says that the European Commission's new label for sustainable finance sets out "how gas and nuclear could make a contribution in the difficult transition to climate neutrality", despite controversy over giving the sustainable finance label to both nuclear power and natural gas. Opponents of gas want to discourage investment in a fossil fuel technology they say only fuels the climate change crisis, while critics of nuclear energy point to the threat posed by accidents and nuclear waste. SOUNDBITE
"The United States will double by 2024 our annual public climate financing development to developing countries," US President Joe Biden says in a speech at the virtual climate summit that he convened on Earth Day. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron receives Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the sidelines of the summit attended by some forty heads of state and government, most of them from developing countries whose economies have been shaken by a succession of crises in recent years. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Palais Brongniart in Paris for the family photo before the close of the summit for a new global financial pact that he has been organising since Thursday. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron launches "a coalition of champions for the financing of natural capital" at the Elysée Palace, in the presence of Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, Gabonese President Ali Bongo, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, World Bank President Ajay Banga and US Special Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry. IMAGES
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