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COP27 saw progress on climate reparations, but more action is needed

The developments at COP27 resulted in a historic agreement to set up a loss and damage fund, but voices from the Global South must remain loud and united long after the climate summit, says Zareen Zahid Qureshi

By Zareen Zahid Qureshi

30 November 2022

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Michelle D’urbano

PAKISTANIS today exist amidst destruction. A third of my country is underwater, and adds to crippling economic woes. This is all for a crime we didn’t commit.

We aren’t alone. Across the African continent, millions of people are living through the pangs of a postcolonial trauma that resurfaces with every and .

All of us in the Global South (a term for lower-income, often decolonised, nations mainly in the southern part of the world) the same thing: relief. The push for loss and damage…

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