UN climate negotiators agree on potential compensation fund for poor nations, says Maldives minister

Negotiators say they have struck a potential breakthrough deal on the thorniest issue of United Nations climate talks: creation of a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich nations' carbon pollution.

...Climate advocacy group Power Shift Africa's Mohamed Adow blamed the United States and the European Union, saying "they're the two groups of parties that are currently blocking and delaying the delivery of our solidarity outcome out of Sharm el-Sheikh."