Cop progress reported on key issue of loss and damage
Negotiators are edging towards a compromise on one of the most divisive issues between countries at the COP21 climate change talks in Paris.
“Loss and damage” is the idea that compensation should be paid to vulnerable states for climate-related events that they cannot adapt to.
… Speaking to the BBC after a bilateral meeting on Frirday, St Lucia’s environment minister Senator James Fletcher said that he had been “heartened” by the discussions.
“I believe there is language, and I’ve been speaking to both the US legal people and our legal people, and urging them to come up with language that I believe will address this.
“I think we are closer now. I have seen language that might even suggest that, I think, that there is a solution. But it’s not left to me.”
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