COP-out: Who's Liable For Climate Change Destruction?

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

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World leaders have gathered in Egypt this week to begin climate talks at the 27th Conference of the Parties. However, there are still outstanding questions about who should pay for climate change losses and damages. Vulnerable countries hit hardest by climate change are asking the wealthier countries most responsible for these damages for compensation.

Climate change correspondent Lauren Sommer joins Emily Kwong to talk about this debate — and the case one island nation is making to seek payment.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:06.3	Hey everyone, Emily Quang here with NPR Climate Reporter Lauren Summer,
0:10.5	who has a hypothetical for us.
0:12.6	I do, okay.
0:13.4	All right.
0:14.4	Say your neighbor is renovating their house.
0:17.3	They're making it super big, you know, fancy.
0:20.0	And with all the construction we're going on and there's digging and stuff,
0:23.4	they manage to completely destabilize the ground under your house too.
0:28.2	So, you know, your walls are cracking and they're falling down and stuff.
0:32.0	Uh, I'd be scared and I'd be mad.
0:33.9	Yeah.
0:34.4	And it's so bad you can't live there anymore.
0:37.2	So, what would you do?
0:39.1	Well, in that case, I would probably want them to fix it.
0:42.3	Like pay for the fix or pay for a new place for me to live, right?
0:46.7	Yeah, right.
0:47.6	And so that's exactly what's happening with climate change right now.
0:52.0	Smaller countries in the world, maybe their lower income,
0:55.0	they've done very little to cause climate change.
0:58.4	You know, their greenhouse gas emissions are low.
1:00.8	But they're bearing some of the worst impacts, you know,
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