Hindustan Times: Almost eight years after the idea was first mooted, climate change negotiators have thrashed out an agreement of a deal to channelise funds necessarily for developing countries to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests. The agreement on what is popularly called the REDD+ initiative reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation now comes with the backing of pledges of $280 million in financing from the United States, Norway and...