On the latest What Next TBD: Whether climate reparations are morally right and whether UN should be administering them are two different questions.
At this year’s annual UN conference on climate change, they are discussing “climate reparations,” wherein the rich countries that grew their wealth burning fossil fuels pay money to poorer and more vulnerable countries.
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