Countries have already suffered deep losses as a result of the #fires, #floods, and other disasters intensifying with #ClimateChange. They want the biggest, heaviest-polluting nations to do something about it. And they’ll be making their case at a conference presided over by an oil baron. #ClimateCrisis
“We cannot rest until this fund is adequately financed and starts to actually alleviate the burden of vulnerable communities,” said 39 countries making up the Alliance of Small Island States (#AOSIS) in a statement after the approval. #ClimateCrisis#Drought#WildFires#Floods#RisingSeas
#John Kerry, the US’s climate envoy, defended the statement. “We are not making the argument to anybody that this is absolutely going to be a sweeping alternative to every other energy source,” he said. #COP28#NuclearPower#ClimateCrisis#GlobalWarming
#DUBAI — The war in Gaza crashed into the #UnitedNations#ClimateSummit on Friday, as furious sideline diplomacy, blunt censures of violence and an Iranian boycott shoved #GlobalWarming to the side.
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