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Climate change: Bonn talks end in acrimony over compensation
Two weeks of climate talks in Germany have ended in acrimony between rich and poor countries over cash for climate damage.
Developing countries say they are reeling from climate change caused by richer countries’ emissions over hundreds of years.
- Matt McGrath
- BBC
They hoped to get compensation onto the official agenda for discussions by world leaders in November.
But here in Bonn they couldn’t get the US and the European Union to agree.
“The climate emergency is fast becoming a catastrophe,” said Conrod Hunte, lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).
“Yet within these walls the process feels out of step with reality, the…