The coming fight over climate change "loss and damage" at the next climate summit

Axios · Andrew Freedman · last updated September 23, 2022 – 9:02 AM

The United Nations General Assembly this week gave hints of a coming clash between developing nations and the industrialized world over how to compensate vulnerable nations that are being hit hardest by climate change.

Why it matters: With climate disasters taking a mounting toll in vulnerable countries, much of the focus at November’s COP27 climate summit in Egypt may be on the responsibility of industrialized nations to provide funding to those countries for climate damage they did not cause.

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