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U.N. Taps Prime Ministers of UK and Ethiopia to Co-Chair Climate Change Funding Effort. By John Heilprin, AP, February 12, 2010. "The U.N. chief tapped the prime ministers of Britain and Ethiopia on Friday to lead the hunt for hundreds of billions of dollars that nations pledged to contribute this decade for dealing with climate change. The announcement is an attempt to fulfill a key part of the nonbinding Copenhagen Accord aimed at directing money from rich nations to poorer nations facing rising sea levels, melting glaciers and other effects of climate change. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday named British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawias co-chairs of a new high-level U.N. advisory group on climate changing financing. Ban said the group will look at 'how to jump start' efforts to collect the tens of billions of dollars a year pledged at the Copenhagen climate conference in December."