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PARIS, Feb 20 — Major industrial and economic centres in China and the United States are among the most vulnerable regions in the world to the increasingly destructive power of...

Analysts say it is unlikely China will pay into the historic climate fund agreed to at the U.N. climate conference to support vulnerable countries.

Before the end of cop. so what are the key sticking points? the draft communique includes a section on loss and damage — relating to a funding mechanism the developing nations have been demaning, to pay for unavoidable climate damage. the big polluters, the us the eu and the uk do not want to sign up to any binding agreement on compensation. also missing is a broad commitment to phase down all fossil fuels, rather thanjust coal as has been proposed by india and the european union. the eu is pu...

Progress on that issue and it is really important, but it, of course, doesnt treat symptoms, not causes? >> reporter: right. so loss and damage is the key issue substantively for this cop. essentially its been an issue where global south countries including low lying states have been advocating and pleading for rich countries to actually compensate them for climate damage they have incurred but have done the least to cause it. this has been an incredible fight for global south countries and for ...

This is newsday on the bbc. im karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines... the un secretary—general has warned that the world is losing the battle of its life over climate change, and says people must co—operate or perish. us politicians are making their final push for votes ahead of tuesdays midterm election, which will decide who controls the senate and the house of representatives. lets return to the top story now, and whats at stake at the cop27 climate summit. earlier, i spoke to pr...

Earlier, i spoke to professor jacqueline peel is director of melbourne climate futures at university of melbourne, and she told me why developing countries are so in need of urgent financing to fix their climate damage now. the devastation thats being caused by climate change in many poorer nations is front and centre on the agenda. and part of the reason that thats the case is because we havent seen richer nations stepping up on other commitments — to reduce emissions to levels that would kee...

The island states want the 2 Asian powers to contribute to a compensation fund to help countries rebuild after disasters wrought by global warming, along with historic emitters like the US, UK and EU.

The structure itself. _ yasser arafat, who dominated the palestinian cause for so long, has died. the palestinian authority has declared a state of mourning. with an outburst ofjoy — women ministers who had long suddenly felt welcomed. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: at the cop summit in egypt, leaders outline a global mission for clean growth and newjobs — as developing countries seek compensation for the climate damage theyve already suffered. ukraines president zelensky says russi...

This is bbc world news — the latest headlines... ukraines president zelensky says russia is planning to continue attacking his countrys infrastructure — and calls on western countries to do more. at the cop summit in egypt — leaders outline a global mission for clean growth and newjobs — as developing countries seek compensation for the climate damage theyve already suffered. now, have you ever felt at work that you are successful, but somehow now worthy of that success? have you felt se...