by George Russell,
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The United Nations is pushing for a novel way to get billions of
extra dollars from Western nations by imposing a retroactive penalty for
still-unspecified losses and damages that can be laid at the doorstep
of rich countries for their longstanding production of greenhouse gases.
The notion was vigorously opposed by the U.S. at the talks, which
concluded in Doha on Dec. 8 -- even though the U.S. has never ratified
the Protocol. But that did not stop the assembly of more than 195
nations from rolling the idea forward to their next meeting, in Warsaw
next December.
In the meantime, the Kyoto parties are calling for more research “to
further the understanding of and expertise on loss and damage associated
with the adverse effects of climate change.”
In other words, the Protocol nations do not yet even know how exactly
to define the loss and damage concept, especially the sort associated
with “slow-onset” change associated with rising seas and
desertification. Yet in their final resolution on the topic they
underlined that “the lack of full scientific certainty should not be
used as reason for postponing action.”
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A dead fish on the
bed of a reservoir on the drought-stricken island of Gran Canaria.
Europe is already feeling the effects of climate change. Photograph:
Borja Suarez/Reuters
