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Inside the final moments of loss and damage at COP

Climate talks in Egypt were down to the wire when two words helped break the deadlock over a contested idea to create a fund for nations that are losing land and people to climate change. The phrase — “particularly vulnerable” — came from a minister whose homeland is being consumed by the Indian Ocean.

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U.S. isolated on loss and damage

The United States is now seen as the biggest obstacle to what poor countries want most out of these talks — a new fund dedicated to help them bounce back from climate disasters.

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