Scale and ambition

Loss and damage fund may prove underwhelming

The first major guest at the 28th edition of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP28, was Prime Minister Narendra Modi. President Joe Biden of the United States is not attending, but various other world leaders, including Italy’s and Britain’s, are present. Mr Modi’s presence is perhaps less attributable to any expected high quality of summit outcomes, and more connected to the close strategic relationship between India and the host country for COP28, the United Arab Emirates. The major work stream at this conference is linked in fact to interim work —