The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is planning a $US100 billion ($112 billion) fund to help countries mitigate the effects of climate change, the agency's head said at the World Economic Forum. "The new growth model will be low carbon," Dominique Strauss-Kahn, MD of the IMF, told political and business leaders meeting in Davos on the weekend.

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