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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 pushing for even tougher "phase out" language. here's the un secretary general, antonio guterres addre...

Progress on that issue and it is really important, but it, of course, doesn't treat symptoms, not causes? >> reporter: right. so loss and damage is the key issue substantively for this cop. essentially it's 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 civil society and we have seen a glimmer of hope because this year for the very first time in 27 y...