Poor nations to demand climate justice and compensation at UN summit

An old hotel is submerged by rising water levels in Lake Baringo in Kampi ya Samaki, Kenya (AP)

The chair of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Egypt has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda.

Madeleine Diouf Sarr, who chairs the Least Developed Countries group (LDC), told The Associated Press that the November conference – known as Cop27 – should “capture the voice and needs of the most climate-vulnerable nations and deliver climate justice”.