{"id":5518,"date":"2022-11-22T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/cop27-debate-on-who-should-pay-for-climate-loss-and-damage-reopens-old-wounds"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:48","slug":"cop27-debate-on-who-should-pay-for-climate-loss-and-damage-reopens-old-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/cop27-debate-on-who-should-pay-for-climate-loss-and-damage-reopens-old-wounds\/","title":{"rendered":"COP27 debate on who should pay for climate loss and damage reopens old wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/06_11_2022_12_22_06_1034252_1669111003.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rich nations at the COP27 climate change summit are attempting to weaken the unity of 134 developing countries that have teamed up to try to push through an agreement on a new fund to tackle worsening &#8220;loss and damage&#8221;, observers of the talks said.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>The European Union put out a surprise proposal on Thursday night, saying it would support the creation of a loss and damage response fund &#8211; a reversal from its stance in previous years.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;&#8221;The fund shouldn\u2019t be used as a poison pill to fix old divisions around expanding the donor base &#8211; as much as that might be needed,&#8221; said Mohamed Adow, director of Nairobi-based think-tank Power Shift Africa.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;A fund that doesn&#8217;t specify the requirement for historic polluters to deliver finance and shifts the burden to undefined &#8216;other sources&#8217; won&#8217;t meet the needs of vulnerable countries facing the adverse impacts of climate change,&#8221; he added.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich nations at the COP27 climate change summit are attempting to weaken the unity of 134 developing countries that have teamed up to try to push through an agreement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[28,27],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-adaptation","tag-climate-justice"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6874,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions\/6874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}