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Nature Climate Change volume 12, pages 887–888 (2022)Cite this article

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Wealthy countries failed to meet their US$100 billion climate finance pledge, and research now suggests that they may be further away from their goal than previously thought. Machine coding of finance projects may help settle the debate and could be part of a more rigorous tracking system.

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  1. Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    J. Timmons Roberts

  2. Global Security Research Programme, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland

    Romain Weikmans

  3. Department of Geosciences, Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Romain Weikmans

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Roberts, J.T., Weikmans, R. Checking contentious counting. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 887–888 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01483-6

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