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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 15:11:00

With other world leaders for the 12 day conference. our environment editorjustin rowlatt looks now at some of the issues on the agenda. it has been a year of record breaking temperatures and climate related disasters around the world. but africa has been hit particularly hard. huge floods displaced more than a million people in nigeria last month. cyclones ripped through madagascar earlier this year. while another year of low rainfall pushed parts of somalia and elsewhere in east africa even closer to famine. it s easy to see why egypt says this should be a cop a climate conference for africa. take a look at historic emissions. developed countries in places like europe and america got rich burning fossilfuels. lots of nations in asia, notably china, are now doing the same. but take a look at africa s share. it is tiny, less than 8% of the total. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 16:09:00

Madagascar earlier this year. while another year of low rainfall pushed parts of somalia and elsewhere in east africa even closer to famine. it s easy to see why egypt says this should be a cop a climate conference for africa. take a look at historic emissions. developed countries in places like europe and america got rich burning fossilfuels. lots of nations in asia, notably china, are now doing the same. but take a look at africa s share. it is tiny, less than 8% of the total. and that s the issue. developing nations say we didn t cause the climate problem, so why should we pay to fix it? egypt is saying it s time for the rich world to come good on its promise of 100 billion a year to help finance developing countries to move away from fossil fuels and adapt to the changing climate. and there will be some new demands, too. remember the terrible floods in pakistan this summer? well, the developing world is also ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 11:02:00

Moment on climate action. in a win for developing countries, delegates have just agreed to discuss whether richer countries should pay compensation for climate fuelled disasters. we begin with this report from our climate editor, justin rowlatt. it has been a year of record breaking temperatures and climate related disasters around the world. but africa has been hit particularly hard. huge floods displaced more than a million people in nigeria last month. cyclones ripped through madagascar earlier this year. while another year of low rainfall pushed parts of somalia and elsewhere in east africa even closer to famine. it s easy to see why egypt says this should be a cop a climate conference for africa. take a look at historic emissions. developed countries in places like europe and america got rich burning fossilfuels. lots of nations in asia, notably china, are now doing the same. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 17:10:00

And elsewhere in east africa even closer to famine. it s easy to see why egypt says this should be a cop a climate conference for africa. take a look at historic emissions. developed countries in places like europe and america got rich burning fossilfuels. lots of nations in asia, notably china, are now doing the same. but take a look at africa s share. it is tiny, less than 8% of the total. and that s the issue. developing nations say we didn t cause the climate problem, so why should we pay to fix it? egypt is saying it s time for the rich world to come good on its promise of 100 billion a year to help finance developing countries to move away from fossil fuels and adapt to the changing climate. and there will be some new demands, too. remember the terrible floods in pakistan this summer? well, the developing world is also asking for cash to help with the loss and damage climate related disasters like this are already causing. ....

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