Doha summit launches climate damage aid

New Scientist: The latest summit to stop climate change, held in Doha, Qatar, over the past two weeks has been roundly slammed. Little was agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and the latest modelling, carried out by the Climate Action Tracker consortium shows global averages temperatures are still set to rise by at least 3 °C above pre-industrial levels. There was one breakthrough: developing countries won a promise from developed ones that they would compensate them for losses and damage caused by climate...

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