Agence France-Presse: Southeast Asian leaders called Friday for a legally binding global pact on climate change and urged richer nations to provide them with “scaled-up” financial help to combat its effects. In a joint summit statement, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Vietnam said a new deal should go further than the non-binding 11th-hour pact reached in Copenhagen in December. All parties under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change should “work …