developing countries argue that developed countries have fallen short of their promises on providing climate finance and want assurances of predicable financial flows from developed countries enb thus the paris agreement has not overcome the general lack of trust between developed and developing countries that has marked the climate negotiations since the start it is perhaps here that the us decision to withdraw from the paris agreement has its biggest effects since the dwindling climate finance contributions of the us will be difficult to compensate for by other countries in katowice countries such as germany and norway announced increases in climate finance and it was decided that discussions on a longterm finance goal would be discussed at the climate change conference in