The U.S. pushed for voluntary payments in a high-stakes negotiation over a global fund for climate disasters.
Negotiators struck a fragile agreement Saturday over the outlines of an international fund for climate-ravaged countries after hours of acrimonious haggling foreshadowed likely divisions at the global climate talks later this month.
The document provides recommendations on the structure of the climate fund for poorer nations that experience unavoidable damages from rising seas, intensifying floods and longer droughts — known as loss and damage in United Nations parlance. The proposal will be taken up at the global climate talks known as COP28.
A State Department official said in an email that the U.S. was pleased that the committee was able to reach agreement “on many aspects” of the loss and damage fund. Developing countries blamed the U.S. and other wealthy nations for failing to support poor, vulnerable countries after climate-fueled disasters.
Both developed and developing countries said they would agree to the text in the hope that they could improve the fund going forward.“There are a lot of things we wanted and we couldn’t get,” said Diann Black-Layne, a negotiator for an alliance of small island states. “I can leave here knowing that we will live to fight another day.”
The U.S. has pressed the committee to make the contributions voluntary, saying rich countries are not obligated under the Paris Agreement to pay for loss and damage. The U.S. has long faced opposition from within Congress for climate funding.
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