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"There is no one else among the industrialized nations" to have made as concrete an offer on climate finance, she said.

Camila Bustos is a lead researcher and Marcela Jaramillo is a policy adviser on climate finance at Nivela.

Europe, along with other rich countries, has a poor track record on meeting its commitments on climate finance.

With no clear rules on climate finance, much of the funds can be channelled to dirty energy, campaigners say.

The Copenhagen accord, despite its weakness, controversy, and inadequacy, did manage to stitch together a bare-bones agreement on climate finance, both in the short- and long-term.

But the announcement so late in the talks risks overwhelming progress made elsewhere at Cancún on agreements to preserve tropical rainforests and on climate finance.

But Australia will also be under pressure to prove that something tangible has changed, in particular to offer more on climate financing and at least signal that a more credible policy is coming.

Australia joined the US initiative for countries to double their spending on clean energy research and development – the details will come in the innovation statement – but the $1bn on climate financing will somehow be found from the already stretched international aid budget.

"It's something novel because it sends a price signal by taxing the emitting fuel," says Clifford Polycarp, a policy expert at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., who works on climate financing mechanisms.

The EU is now dumbing down its expectations for Cancún, hoping to achieve modest agreements on climate financing and a climate warning system.

Jagdeo will also draw on his experience serving on the UN Secretary General's High Level Advisory Group on Climate Financing, as a patron of the Delhi-based World Sustannable Development Forum, as an IUCN Patron of Nature, and President of the Assembly of the Korea-based Global Green Growth Institute.