They called it a breakthrough for climate justice, but three years later it feels more like a broken promise written on glossy paper — and now, with COP30 convening in Belém this month, the urgency is clearer than ever. The grand declarations made at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh about helping the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations now echo hollow in the corridors of power. The much-touted Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage was hailed as a moral milestone, a recognition that those least responsible for the crisis deserve real help. Yet what has followed since then is mostly performance: big words, little money, and even less action.
The fund was meant to deliver hope to nations reeling from climate-driven devastation — from vanishing coastlines to floods, droughts, and crop failures. Instead, it has become a textbook case of how political theatre can replace tangible responsibility.
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