Nations reach long-sought agreement on payments for climate damage

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Governments from astir the satellite agreed to person affluent countries assistance wage susceptible nations for the harm they’re suffering from clime change, a woody that overcomes decades of U.S. and European resistance.

The agreement, reached astatine the extremity of a 14-day U.N. clime acme connected the Red Sea and announced to large applause successful the room, pushed the hardest decisions disconnected until astatine slightest precocious 2023.

Those see the nonstop premix of authorities and backstage financing that would spell into the climate-damage fund, arsenic good arsenic U.S. and European demands that China and different middle-income countries lend arsenic well.