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The World Bank's $200bn climate investment announcement at the UN Climate Conference COP24 is welcome, but must be new money that can help tackle poverty.

Climate change is the single greatest threat to development – making the battle to overcome poverty ever harder and more expensive.

The small island states – the country’s most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change – outlined their proposal for a climate deal in Copenhagen today.

• Climate change is the number one threat to human development.