Climate Change - Loss and Damage?

The idea is that richer nations who have caused the problem of climate change, they have emitted all these greenhouse gases. This fund will help compensate for the damage that poor nations are experiencing. You've pushed for this for many, many years. When did you first start arguing the case with this? And it must give you some satisfaction to see it finally become reality. Well, I can't take credit for starting it. It was started by the Small Island States at the very beginning of the UN Framework Convention because they knew that ultimately failure to tackle climate change means many of them going under the sea. They raised it from the very beginning, but they got no traction at all. Nobody supported them