The Latest Breaking News from Developing Countries

Negotiations are centred on ‘loss and damages’ – but some think that language does not fully account for climate debt

China is responsible for more cumulative emissions than any country other than the US

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - UN climate talks that were supposed to end Friday were extended by a day in an effort to break a deadlock over creating a fund for developing countries devastated by the fallout from global warming.

On what should have been the final day of Cop27 climate talks in Egypt, an EU proposal to break a deadlock on financial help for poor nations ravaged by climate change has piled pressure on big-polluting developing countries such as China to pitch in. The talks have been extended into…

At Sharm el-Sheikh, a strong vow to put right the wrongs of the world is not, sadly, the final word from the climate summit. That will be bland and unprogressive.

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - Wealthy and developing countries set the stage Tuesday for a showdown at UN climate talks over demands for rich polluters to compensate vulnerable nations for damages caused by natural disasters.

The G77 bloc of developing countries and China are proposing the establishment of a new 'loss and damage' fund to provide finance to countries hit by climate disasters, a draft text of their proposal to the COP27 summit showed.

India on Monday firmly resisted calls for developing countries to raise ambitions at the ongoing UN climate summit in Egypt, saying "goalposts are being shifted constantly. Read more on Dynamite News:

This year at COP, countries may decide if and how to compensate countries most impacted by climate change

Indigenous women from the Amazon held a press conference and developing countries criticised the G7’s loss and damage strategy

Former US vice-president says bank should refocus its spending and end its role in ‘fossil fuel colonialism’