{"id":50402,"date":"2022-11-21T01:24:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/nov\/20\/loss-and-damage-pakistan-flooding-climate-justice-cop27"},"modified":"2022-11-21T01:24:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:24:54","slug":"we-couldnt-fail-them-how-pakistans-floods-spurred-fight-at-cop-for-loss-and-damage-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50402","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We couldn\u2019t fail them\u2019: how Pakistan\u2019s floods spurred fight at Cop for loss and damage fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the deadly devastation fresh in the world\u2019s mind, Pakistan pushed for damage funds with other frontline countries<\/p>\n<p>In early September, after unprecedented rainfall had left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister set out the country\u2019s stall for Cop27. \u201cWe are on the frontline and intend to keep loss and damage and adapting to climate catastrophes at the core of our arguments and negotiations. There will be no moving away from that,\u201d Sherry Rehman said.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan brought that resolve to the negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh and, as president of the G77 plus China negotiating bloc, succeeded in keeping developing countries united on loss and damage \u2013 despite efforts by some rich countries to divide them. Its chief negotiator, Nabeel Munir, a career diplomat, was backed by a team of savvy veteran negotiators who had witnessed the devastation and suffering from the floods, which caused $30bn (\u00a325bn) of damage and economic losses. Every day, Munir repeated the same message: \u201cLoss and damage is not charity, it\u2019s about climate justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/nov\/20\/loss-and-damage-pakistan-flooding-climate-justice-cop27\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the deadly devastation fresh in the world\u2019s mind, Pakistan pushed for damage funds with other frontline countriesIn early September, after unprecedented rainfall had left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister set out the cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,65,313,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-flooding","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50403,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402\/revisions\/50403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}