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Eugene

(62,717 posts)
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 09:13 AM Oct 2023

The money fight that could 'break' the climate summit

Source: Politico

The money fight that could ‘break’ the climate summit

An agreement to create the loss and damage fund was the big achievement of last year’s climate conference in Egypt. But countries including the U.S. are at odds over how to set it up and who should run it.

By ZIA WEISE, SARA SCHONHARDT and KARL MATHIESEN
10/30/2023 05:00 AM EDT

A historic agreement to support victims of climate disasters is at risk of coming apart — a development that could derail the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Dubai.

Talks on setting up a fund to help poorer countries cope with the consequences of global warming have become mired in acrimony to the point where one lead negotiator is threatening to reopen the most explosive issue: whether big polluters such as the U.S. and the European Union should be held liable for their many decades of greenhouse gas pollution. That notion could cause the U.S. to walk away from talks on the fund altogether.

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Last year’s summit, known as COP27, yielded an agreement to set up a fund to pay for loss and damage, as the social and economic costs of climate change are known in U.N. jargon. That fragile consensus came after years of resistance led by the U.S., which has pumped more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other country and has been wary of opening any legal avenue to compensation claims.

Yet as negotiations have started to drill down on the form the fund should take, and who should run it, what little progress has been achieved has been put on hold.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/30/climate-disaster-fund-dubai-un-summit-00124038

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The money fight that could 'break' the climate summit (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2023 OP
No surprise there... 2naSalit Oct 2023 #1
this is absurd mike_c Oct 2023 #2

2naSalit

(93,049 posts)
1. No surprise there...
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 10:14 AM
Oct 2023

One step forward a while ago only to be answered with three steps back when it comes time to actually get on with it. Happens every time.

mike_c

(36,355 posts)
2. this is absurd
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 01:49 PM
Oct 2023

Failing to deal with the financial fallout from climate change now will only lead to vastly higher costs to remediate the damage later. Talk about whistling past the cemetary!

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