StarEditorial: At long last COP27 leaders agreed to so-called “loss and damage” funding to aid vulnerable nations ravaged by climate catastrophe.
, the fight for L&D financing by developing nations dates back three decades. With no result. So do we agree with the UN’s statement that the past-deadline consensus was indeed a “breakthrough?”Governments agreed to establish a “transitional committee,” the purpose of which is to “make recommendations” on how to “operationalize” the fund at the time of next year’s climate change gathering.
It takes a second to get one’s head around that. But with sea levels advancing and temperatures rapidly rising and land literally disappearing, Tuvaluvians face the real prospect of becoming the world’s first climate change refugees. Recreating the country virtually – piece by piece, as Kofe says — is a way to preserve for future generations what was.
More than 1,700 dead. More than two million homes destroyed or damaged. The aftershocks are ongoing. UNICEF says an acute child survival crisis has been left in the disaster’s wake, with as many as 10 million children facing malnutrition, and malaria and dengue fever and . . . the list seems endless.at COP27 in pushing through on loss and damage.
And then there’s the thorny issue of China. The world’s top polluter, which is still listed by the UN as a developing country, appears unlikely to contribute to a fund dealing with a climate catastrophe that, it argues, has historically not been of its making.
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