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Loss and damage fund could make or break COP28
The final proposal for a loss and damage fund contains few gains for developing countries; it has no funding targets, and it will be housed by the World Bank rather than the UN. Ritu Bharadwaj at IIED describes it as a “colonisation” of climate finance. Development Today is told that the COP28 Presidency will try to push through early agreement on the fund.