AFP: Six rich economies joined a website unveiled on Friday detailing pledges in short-term aid they made at last December’s climate summit, a move aimed at restoring damaged trust with developing countries. The portal www.faststartfinance.org showed that Britain, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Norway had so far allocated the equivalent of 3.2 billion dollars in climate funds. Twenty-seven poorer countries are named as beneficiaries, including Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, …

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