The board members of a new fund that will help countries recover from climate change disasters had a lot to cover in their first meeting this week. But there was one thing they weren’t ready to tackle: what to call it.
Getting more than 190 countries to approve the fund, known in diplomatic circles as loss and damage, was a crowning achievement of last year’s COP28 climate talks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It came together after a year of often tense negotiations about how it should operate and who should receive its money. The first inkling of the fund goes back much further — to 1991.
Compared with that, deciding on a name might seem easy.
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