For 30 years, developing nations have been calling for compensation from industrialized countries for the costs of devastating storms and droughts caused by climate change. For just as long, rich nations, including the United States and those in the European Union, have resisted those calls.
Just one country, Scotland, committed $2.2 million for “loss and damage” when it hosted last year’s U.N. climate summit. But this week, the dam may have begun to break. On Sunday, negotiators from developing countries succeeded in placing the issue of loss and damage on the formal agenda of the United Nations climate change conference for the first time.
Rich nations, which have emitted half of all heat-trapping gases since 1850, have worried that compensating poorer countries for climate disasters already underway could open them to unlimited liability. But on Monday, President Emmanuel Macron of France said Europe was already helping poorer countries, and that other Western nations needed to do more. “Europeans are paying,” he said. “We are the only ones paying.”
“Pressure must be put on rich non-European countries, telling them, ‘You have to pay your fair share,’” he said, in a not-too-veiled reference to the Americans. John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, has agreed to discuss the...
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