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Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Experts from the Global South have expressed concern that developed countries' attempts to narrow the eligibility criteria for receiving loss and damage funding and expand the contributor base may slow down negotiations on the critical issue at COP28. India News | Developed Nations' L&D Funding Proposals Threaten Progress at COP28, Global South Experts Warn.

The climate conference in Bonn, prior to the 28th Conference of Parties in Dubai, witnessed demands from developing countries for finance to be delivered, rather than promised, to mitigate climate change risks. Key issues at stake at the conference, which failed to make headway, included the operationalisation of the Loss and Damage Fund, as well as ways to achieve the just transition work programme, progress on carbon markets and mitigation.

The seventh edition of the MoCA takes place at a critical moment, in the backdrop of record heat waves and devastation from extreme rainfall and flooding across the world, reports of budgetary cuts resulting in governments pulling back on their international climate commitments. The urgency to act decisively and fast to reduce emissions, to phase out fossil fuel use makes it imperative for the UAE, which holds the COP28 presidency, to indicate its priorities and how it proposes to galvanise countries to act decisively on addressing the climate project.

A rift over the agenda at technical talks in Bonn exposed the deep mistrust at the heart of the UN climate process

Pressure to speed cuts in carbon pollution took a back seat at UN climate talks that ended late Thursday night.