No money for climate loss and damage
Even six years after the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage was established, there is little hope for getting funding for climate disasters
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Rich nations must pay for climate loss and damage
Wealthy countries have to own up responsibility for more than half the cost of repairing the loss and damage already caused to poorer nations due to climate disasters
Why must the poor pay most for climate change?
Forcing the poor to pay the ultimate price of destitution and displacement due to the climate crisis for the comfort of the rich cannot continue if we want to retain social cohesion
Best of 2017: Climate insurance not enough for loss and damage
Insurance initiatives for those vulnerable to climate change impacts is a move in the right direction, but more needs to done to account for the loss and damage suffered by communities that have done little to add to global warming
Two major global insurance initiatives were launched at the Bonn climate summit that aim to provide insurance to hundreds of millions of…Read more
Climate insurance not enough for loss and damage
Insurance initiatives for those vulnerable to climate change impacts is a move in the right direction, but more needs to done to account for the loss and damage suffered by communities that have done little to add to global warming
Two major global insurance initiatives were launched at the Bonn climate summit that aim to provide insurance to hundreds of millions of…Read more
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