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Climate Conference faces a crisis as differentiation is diluted in rulebook

US does want equity and Loss and Damage mentioned in the Paris Agreement rulebook

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An exhibition of India at the venue of the COP24 UN Climate Change Conference, in Katowice on Thursday. (photo: reuters)

Nitin Sethi Katowice
At 9 pm on Thursday the Polish presidency brought out its iteration of the Paris Agreement rulebook after two days of ministerial rounds. From then on the talks spiralled to a crisis. When countries met at 11 pm each group and several countries read out a litany of problems they saw in the new draft. The fundamental differences between the developing and the developed world remained as wide as they had at the beginning of the talks.

The US said it did not want equity mentioned in the rulebook, wanted all references to equity and loss and damage scrubbed from