The European Commission’s Executive Vice-President responsible for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, called for alternatives to the creation of a financial facility to address the loss and damage caused by climate change, on Wednesday 16 November, in a brief interview with journalists in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, as part of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27).
The facility, which has been called for by the Group of 77 (G77) countries in particular, would aim to...