U.S. details $6 billion in pledges for climate, ocean investments

By Milagro Vallecillos and Brendan O’Boyle PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Friday gave details on $6 billion in funding commitments around the world to protect oceans and fight climate change. The amount was first announced Thursday by Washington’s climate envoy John Kerry at an oceans conference in Panama and encompasses 77 different commitments, the U.S. State Department said in a press release on Friday. The total includes some $3 billion in climate resilience and climate research commitments that were part of the Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress last year, ac…

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