When delegates from nearly 200 countries arrived in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El Sheikh two weeks ago, they already knew they had a thorny task on their hands: tying up the many loose ends of the Glasgow climate deal, and doing it in a particularly delicate way. context, marked by the war between Russia and Ukraine, by the growing tensions between the US and China and by the violent floods that killed hundreds of people in Pakistan and that put the urgency of financing at the center of the debate in the most exposed countries to the current impacts of climate change.
Two weeks later, it is precisely this problem, which in United Nations jargon is commonly referred to as loss and damageor loss and damage, which is delaying the final agreement of another climate summit that is expected to fall short of the expectations of activists, environmentalists and lawmakers.
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Source: Observadora
