Sweden will set up an international climate commission to investigate how foreign aid to developing countries can be used to help fight global warming, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said in an interview published Monday, according to AP. The Stockholm-based commission will be headed by Sweden's aid minister, Gunilla Carlsson, and will include researchers and representatives from both donor and developing countries, Reinfeldt told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper. «The commission's task will be to find out how to use aid to meet climate threats,» he said. «Climate change hits developing countries the fastest, while they are the ones that have the least resources to do anything about it,» he said. Reinfeldt was to present the initiative later Monday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a climate summit in New York, the newspaper said. The commission, which will be funded by the Swedish government, will start work later this year and present its recommendations in 2009.
