Article 6GT0R Cop28: Rishi Sunak says ‘climate politics is close to breaking point’ – as it happened

Cop28: Rishi Sunak says ‘climate politics is close to breaking point’ – as it happened

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Helena Horton (now) and Matthew Taylor (earlier)
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My colleague Nina Lakhani has more on yesterday's loss and damage agreement.

As the second day gets under way, the president of the G77 plus China group - the bloc of 135 developing countries which played a key role in yesterday's historic resolution on operationalising the loss and damage fund - said the decision sent a clear political message.

It was a milestone in terms of creating a positive mood for the very, very complex process on the GST [global stock take] that we had ahead of us now. But the fund needs to be filled up. The pledges announced were a welcome sign, but they were just pledges and must materialise as soon as possible. And we expect much, much more because of the impact of loss and damage in developing countries," said ambassador Pedro Pedroso of Cuba.

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