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This year’s COP27 climate conference wrapped up this weekend with a surprisingly big concession from some of the world’s biggest emitters — but climate advocates say oil and gas interests still weakened their win.
When global climate negotiators gathered this month for COP27, vulnerable countries like Pakistan, which suffered incredible flooding earlier this year, came ready to fight for climate repairs.
They wanted the world’s biggest emitters to pay up for the loss and damages their fossil fuel emissions had caused for decades. After all, many countries that stand to lose the most from climate change also cannot afford to mitigate its damage, but are responsible for only a small piece of the emissions that worsened it.
But as is typical when global powers are asked to own up to their past (and ongoing) transgressions, the US and other top powers kept rejecting climate-vulnerable countries’ calls. A breakthrough only came when Scotland — last year’s climate conference host — more than tripled the loss and damage funding it pledged a year ago.
From there, the dam fell: Just a day before the conference’s scheduled end, the European Union announced it would
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