Editorial | Climate change meeting a reminder of inaction on past promises

The United Nations’ annual climate change conference inevitably highlights a host of incongruities that remind us how, well, un-united we are.

If that sounds freighted with the world-weary defeatism of the skeptic, consider the opening statement at this year’s conference by Gaston Browne, president of Antigua and Barbuda. Speaking on behalf of AOSIS, the Alliance of Small Island States, Browne evinced a sombre weariness as he reminded delegates of the alliance’s proposal for a financing mechanism that would address loss and damage associated with sea level rise.

There has been progress. Ireland, Scotland, Belgium and Denmark are among those that have now made what can be described as modest financial commitments to redressing catastrophic loss, albeit without a defined mechanism for distributing funds. Scotland this week increased its pledge to roughly $11 million. Belgium announced a 25-million-euro program for Mozambique, the majority of which will be targeted at green energy investments while 2.5 million euros will be committed to loss and damage.

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