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Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world's poorest countries, and what does compensation look like?

  • Written by Bethany Tietjen, Research fellow in climate policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world's poorest countries, and what does compensation look like?Extreme flooding in Pakistan in 2022 affected 33 million people. Akram Shahid/AFP via Getty Images

You may be hearing the phrase “loss and damage” in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference.

It refers to the costs, both economic and physical, that developing countries are facing...

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