Vanuatu pushes UN climate resolution despite US opposition

The Trump administration’s effort to sink a UN resolution demanding action on the climate crisis has forced cuts to the proposal but not killed it, Vanuatu says. The US demanded that Vanuatu drop a draft resolution calling on countries to implement an ICJ ruling that they could face paying reparations if they fail to stem the climate crisis.

Vanuatu trimmed sections in hopes a reduced version can be adopted in a UN vote later this month. Opposition from the US and other fossil fuel producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, led to the removal of a call for countries to submit a registry of the “loss and damage” they suffer from storms, floods and drought.

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