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The US and other wealthy countries are inching towards a deal with poorer nations on one of the most divisive issues in UN climate change talks: dealing with the damaging impacts of global warming.
The question of how to help people displaced by the extreme weather that scientists say is likely to intensify as global temperatures rise has become a festering sticking point in UN climate negotiations over the past five years.
Some poorer nations insist rich countries,whose carbon pollution initially caused the climate change problem,should compensate them for weather-related losses that have risen to well over $100bn a year, according to the World Bank.
Wealthier countries,which have already agreed to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 to help poorer countries tackle climate change,have resisted any measures that could make them legally liable for billions of extra dollars in compensation.
The US and other wealthy countries are inching towards a deal with poorer nations on one of the most divisive issues in UN climate change talks: dealing with the damaging impacts of global warming.
The question of how to help people displaced by the extreme weather that scientists say is likely to intensify as global temperatures rise has become a festering sticking point in UN climate negotiations over the past five years.
Some poorer nations insist rich countries,whose carbon pollution initially caused the climate change problem,should compensate them for weather-related losses that have risen to well over $100bn a year, according to the World Bank.
Wealthier countries,which have already agreed to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 to help poorer countries tackle climate change,have resisted any measures that could make them legally liable for billions of extra dollars in compensation.