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According to George Soros, global leaders are mining the wrong places for climate cash

By Rowena Mason, Telegraph, UK

December 10, 2009

Holding court before the TV cameras, Mr Soros bluntly pointed out that neither developed nor developing countries can stretch their balance sheets much further at the moment.

“But this $10bn fund is more than nothing but not much more because of the magnitude of the problem,” he declared. “It’s not sufficient and it’s already becoming apparent that there’s a gap between the developed and developing worlds on this issue that could actually wreck the conference.”

Global leaders are looking in the wrong places, he explained. The world needs new money and this can be found in current rainy day reserves. Developed countries should give up their special drawing rights (international reserve assets) handed out by the International Monetary Fund as loans for developing countries in a $100bn fund. Poor countries pay interest and eventually the whole loan, but in the event of a default, the loans are backed by the IMF’s gold reserves.....

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