New Global Financial Pact Summit seeking to overhaul the international financial system and proposing steps towards easing the debt burden of developing nations concluded at Paris today.

Host country France pitched the conference as a consensus-building exercise.

The summit comes amid growing recognition of the scale of the financial challenges ahead, with warnings that the world’s ability to curb global warming  is reliant on a massive increase in clean energy investment in developing countries.

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