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Chris McCall

Nicola Sturgeon hails Scottish contribution to COP27 as deal struck to help worst-hit countries

Nicola Sturgeon has welcomed an historic deal struck on the last day of COP27 to launch a fund to support nations worst-hit by climate change.

The First Minister described the financial commitment from richer countries to help foot the bill for for "loss and damage" caused by global warming as a "real breakthrough".

But the Scottish Greens described COP27 as "yet another failure" after delegates failed to agree the kind of drastic changes on carbon emissions needed to limit rising temperatures to 1.5 degrees over the next 80 years.

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