Evolving country participants say that the climate impacts on their countries are more damaging than on the richer nations as they have less financial capacity to cope with the severity.
Adriana Vasquez Rodriquez from the Association La Ruta del Clima, a Costa Rican environmental group stated that we all are already living with loss and damages for the last 25 years.
He also said that all many families who have lost their homes, their crops, their lives, and no one is paying for that, we are running out of resources, and at the same time, we are depending on debt.
The developing nations argue that the climate change they are experiencing has been caused by historic carbon emissions that originated in richer countries.
They say that Europe and the US have a responsibility now to pay for these losses and damages.
Some also targeted the US climate envoy John Kerry who told the BBC at the initial point of the meeting that the world will be “cooked” if carbon emissions weren’t cut rapidly.
Global south countries are doing everything to get the US, the largest historic emitter, to pay for the harms they have caused,” said Rachel Rose Jackson from Corporate Accountability.
Meanwhile, the US cooks up delay after delay to avoid taking any responsibility or action on the climate crisis. It’s not the US that’s ‘cooked’. They’re doing the cooking.”
With one day of talking left, there is some hope that a compromise can be found to put loss and damage on the agenda for the COP in Egypt.
The island states and establishing countries would consent to the Glasgow environment deal with a large focus on reducing carbon if the richer nations would finally set up a procedure that would fund loss and damages.
Alex Scott from E3G an ecological think tank said that the concession was based on an understanding that nations would be willing to begin speaking as well as taking decisions on managing just how to get that finance flowing for loss as well as damages.
A female was seen with a hand fan to cool a youngster during the recent heatwave in India.
A workshop set up to talk about exactly how we can repair some of the problems.”
The concession included the establishment of the Glasgow dialogue on loss and damages, which had its first workshop meeting here in Bonn.
