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“We’re at a breaking point,” warned Avinash Persaud, the lead negotiator for Barbados, after negotiations on how to set up the fund broke down last weekend.…

An agreement to create the loss and damage fund was the big achievement of last year’s climate conference in Egypt. But countries including the U.S. are at odds over how to set it up and who should run it.

Discussions among countries broke down during their fourth round of talks about a pivotal green initiative from the United Nations.

I've rarely been lost for words at the outset of these links, but watching the news these days really is taking my breath completely away. I don't think I can adequately articulate my feelings, or adequately comprehend how it must feel, so I will not try to write anything here beyond that. It feels odd to go straight into economics, marginalia, and pop culture, but there are things a flippant email about economics is well equipped to deal with and some things its not.

Alongside the Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, this new festival will host a rich variety of programming, with multiple sessions and book talks held during the week of the Annual Meetings, three of which are co-hosted by CGD.