A fight over compensation for loss and damage suffered by countries affected by climate change is building ahead of the COP27 UN global summit in Egypt, as African climate and economic experts criticised the US climate envoy John Kerry for not taking the issue seriously.
Speaking in Egypt on Monday, Kerry stressed the urgent need for national commitments to be delivered to limit global warming, but made only a passing reference to the issue of loss and damage.
Kerry was also cited as saying recently that focus on a loss and damage facility “could delay our ability to do the most important thing of all, which is [to] achieve mitigation sufficient to reduce the level of adaptation.”
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