'Loss and damage' fund agreed at Cop27 to help vulnerable nations 'an empty bucket'

Human rights campaigner Mary Robinson said agreeing the loss and damage fund was meaningless without it actually being stocked properly. Picture: John O'Grady.

The historic fund agreed at last year's Cop27 event — where richer nations agreed to pay a fairer share towards nations more vulnerable to climate change — remains an "empty bucket", according to Mary Robinson.

The former Irish president and UN human rights commissioner was speaking as a report from Christian Aid Ireland and Trócaire calculated Ireland’s fair share towards assisting more vulnerable nations to the ravages of climate change should be at least €1.5bn a year by 2030.