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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Valerie Volcovici and Aidan Lewis

Island nations want China, India to pay for climate damage

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows flooded industrial buildings by a highway following heavy rainfall in Xinxiang, Henan province, China July 24, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

Highly polluting emerging economies including China and India should pay into a climate compensation fund to help countries rebuild after climate change-driven disasters, the prime minister of island nation Antigua and Barbuda said on Tuesday.

The comments marked the first time the two nations have been lumped into the list of major emitters that island states say should be held to account for damage already being wrought by global warming.

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