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Empresas y finanzas

EU eyes fund to win Eastern Europe support on climate


    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Eastern European member states could receive two levels of funding to secure their support in an EU plan to cut carbon in the fight against climate change, according to a final draft text prepared for leaders on Friday.

    Ten percent of revenues from the EU's flagship emissions trading scheme (ETS) would be distributed to them via the so-called "solidarity and growth" fund, said the text seen by Reuters and which is yet to be approved by leaders.

    That would be followed by a further 2 percent for the nine former communist countries that reduced emissions when industry collapsed in the wake of communism.

    (Reporting by Ingrid Melander and Pete Harrison; editing by Mark John)