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Richer countries are starting to pay poorer ones for climate change damages

5:30am November 21, 2024

by Lauren Sommer

With climate-related disasters getting more extreme, richer countries are piloting ways to compensate developing nations, since they bear the least responsibility for causing climate change.

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Coal power has resurged since the pandemic, like at this coal processing plant in China's Shanxi Province, but research shows it should be phased out by 2030 to avoid extreme climate change.

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Here's how far behind the world is on reining in climate change

4:29pm October 27, 2022

by Lauren Sommer

The world is set to start crucial climate change negotiations soon. To avoid extreme warming, nations have to make deep cuts in heat-trapping emissions, fast.