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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Amanda Morrow

Young protesters at Cop27 demand climate damage fund

Waving banners and chanting slogans including “pay up, pay up” and “it’s now or never”, young protesters used the final Friday of the Cop27 summit to demand loss and damage financing for vulnerable countries. © Amanda Morrow/RFI

As the UN’s Cop27 climate talks were extended by a day, Fridays For Future protesters at the event demanded that big-polluting rich nations agree to loss and damage financing for vulnerable countries already ravaged by the climate crisis – a major obstacle to a final deal.

Young activists from around the world shared their stories with journalists at the Children and Youth Pavilion before marching down a road inside the conference’s Blue Zone, where negotiations are happening behind closed doors.

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