Germany and Britain will provide a combined $153 million to expand programmess to fight climate change and deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The European Investment Bank also announced $75 million for a new $405 million investment programme by the Water Authority of Fiji. At Bonn, India reiterated provisions for fince — both for adaptation and mitigation, technology transfer for climate actions from the developed tions. A day after a major victory for India and developing countries on climate action before 2020 that the developed world agreed to discuss in subsequent two years, India’s Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Harsh Vardhan has said provisions for fince, technology transfer and capacity building support to developing tions are critical. Stressing that this Conference of Parties (COP23) is crucial as it would set the stage for the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue, accelerate pre-2020 action and firm up the modalities for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement, he said India has undertaken ambitious mitigation and adaptation action. (IANS)