Climate Change - Is China a Contributor?

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There are about 198 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change. You have to get oil producers like Saudi Arabia and island countries like the Marshall Islands all to agree on the same thing. China as a large country that's also developing in some respects, but is also the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter,. Are they on the contributor side or are they on the recipient side?

In a UN-brokered agreement, more than 190 countries agreed to pay for “loss and damage” caused by climate change. But determining who owes what — and for what and to whom — will be a real challenge.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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