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Barack Obama will make a substantial pledge to a fund to help poor countries fight climate change, again putting the US at odds with Australia, which has argued against diplomatic efforts for G20 leaders to promise more contributions to the fund.

(Press release) U.N. hails South Korean support for aid programmes in North Thursday, 27 March 2003 - Three United Nations agencies today welcomed a substantial pledge of support by the Republic of Korea for emergency feeding and healthcare programmes to assist millions of vulnerable children, women and elderly people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

U.N. hails South Korean support for aid programmes in North Thursday, 27 March 2003 - Three United Nations agencies today welcomed a substantial pledge of support by the Republic of Korea for emergency feeding and healthcare programmes to assist millions of vulnerable children, women and elderly people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

PYONGYANG, 27 March 2003 - Three United Nations agencies today welcomed a substantial pledge of support by the Republic of Korea for emergency feeding and healthcare programmes to assist millions of vulnerable children, women and elderly people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Officials said "substantial" pledges had already been received, with the programme opening up "a new era in transparency".

Labour sources say the five-year £5.5bn initiative is the party's most substantial manifesto pledge to date, coming on top of previous commitments to reverse cuts to housing benefit and to reinstate the 10p tax rate.

But Gove also chose to launch his leadership bid with a very substantial social reform speech, with some significant pledges on subjects including the NHS and rental housing.

For leaders to speak at the Obama summit, they will have to make substantial new pledges to either take in more refugees, do more to help those who have already arrived or give much greater assistance to host countries in the developing world, where 86% of the world's refugees live.

While the United States, China and the European Union have made substantial new pledges to cut emissions, they fall short of what is required.

The summit was always unlikely to agree on anything substantial, let alone pledge eternal hemispheric brotherhood.

The summit on financing for development in Monterrey, Mexico, in March, saw America and Europe pledge substantial increases in aid to poor countries.Yet, so far, there have been far more words than deeds, on both sides.