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"The debate over loss and damage has been intense because the final language of the Paris accord could require developed countries, first and foremost the Unite
by tosseraccount 11y ago
"The debate over loss and damage has been intense because the final language of the Paris accord could require developed countries, first and foremost the United States, to give billions of dollars to vulnerable countries like the Marshall Islands." [ from the NYTimes article ]
Hoo boy. This is going to have problems passing in the current U.S. Congress.
- caseysoftware 11y agoApparently developing countries want the top nations to pay $1-2T (yes, trillion) to execute their own plans. There's also another $1-2T in damages being discussed. Ref: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/30/439679/France-Paris-IIED-COP21Yemen-climate-change http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/30/439679/France-Paris-...
- ocschwar 11y agoBangladesh alone is 100,000,000 people looking for new digs. $1T is about right. And someone is going to pay it. Only question is who.
- fixermark 11y agoIt's distressingly possible that the answer is "Nobody," at least nobody directly to the populations. The $1T will get spent, just in preventing, not assisting, relocation. Mass migration is an ancient trigger of wars, is what I'm saying.
- ocschwar 11y agoIf the people displaced by climate change don't get any assistance relocating, then they are the ones paying.