Loss and damages are the things that you want to avoid as a result of climate change. And so what you cannot lose sight of if you're serious about the climate issue is that all of this comes back to cutting emissions. Unless you mitigate costs on adaptation and also costs on loss and damage, they will just keep spiraling. COP27 in many ways ended up being a real disappointment.
An issue ignored for three decades came to dominate the summit’s agenda: reparations to poor countries for climate-driven “loss and damage”. Alas, halting those coming losses did not feature much. Our correspondent speaks with a Ukrainian fighter pilot about defending the country’s airspace using mostly Soviet-era kit. And why some words sound the same across many languages.
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