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But now, here's Jill.

Countries from around the world recently agreed to provide $300 billion to support poor nations in the face of climate change.

The agreement reached on November 24th at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan, left many unsatisfied.

But some were hopeful that it would be a step in the right direction.

The final deal says that rich countries have agreed to collectively provide at least $300 billion a year by 2035.

The amount is much smaller than the $1.3 trillion that developing nations were asking for,

and that experts said was needed.

Chandani Rana is India's negotiator at the climate talks.

She told the Associated Press that the amount of money in the deal was very small.

She said, I'm sorry to say we cannot accept it.

Nigeria's Hiruka Madueke, head of the National Council on Climate Change, called the deal

an insult and a joke.

Ani Dasgupta is head of the Environmental Organization World Resources Institute.

Dasgupta called it an important down payment toward a safer, more equitable future.

However, he added that the poorest countries are rightfully disappointed, that wealthy nations

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