Catherine Reich is our Environment Editor. She says there were two positive things for the climate coming out and one real loss. The first was an agreement to a new finance package on what's known as loss and damage. And then the second was actually the idea that in order to properly address the different elements of climate change, there's a need to re-jig the global financial system.
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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