Author

Adil Najam

Adil Najam

Professor of International Relations, Boston University

COMMENTARY

COP27’s ‘loss and damage’ fund for developing countries: Breakthrough, or empty promise?

By: - November 23, 2022

Developing nations were justifiably jubilant at the close of COP27 as negotiators from wealthy countries around the world agreed for the first time to establish a dedicated “loss and damage” fund for vulnerable countries harmed by climate change. It was an important and hard fought acknowledgment of the damage – and of who bears at […]