‘Loss and damage’ deal struck to help countries worst hit by climate crisis

A villager walks over parched land on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India, in 2009. Photograph: Biswaranjan Rout/AP

Countries have agreed key measures to supply funds to the world’s most vulnerable people to repair the damage from climate breakdown.

Governments from richer and poorer countries drew up the blueprint for a new “loss and damage” fund after a tense two-day meeting under UN guidance in Abu Dhabi that ended late on Saturday night.