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Smaller countries have argued at COP27 that the rich industrialised, west should pay compensation for the cost of climate change for the developing world. The Prime Minister of Barbados told Sky News that the measures – known as “loss and damage” – was “a conversation whose time had some”. Sky’s …

At COP27, nearly 200 countries signed a new climate deal. Richer nations agreed to create a loss and damage fund to help poorer nations deal with the impacts of the climate crisis. The details of this funding are yet to be finalized. source

Months on from devastating floods in Pakistan, millions of people remain homeless, roads are destroyed and tens of thousands of schools and hospitals lie in ruins. At the COP27 climate summit, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on Western nations to offer compensation to poorer, vulnerable countries like his, which …

There are fears from scientists that the conflict in Ukraine will overshadow the release of a climate report that’s being called “an atlas of suffering” by the United Nations. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on global warming shows the pace and scale of climate impacts are accelerating rapidly …