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Denmark first to offer U.N.-led climate compensation

Denmark became the first nation to pledge aid money for U.N.-led "loss and damage" climate funding meant to help vulnerable developing nations.

A woman points to flooded areas of Bangladesh's Gaibandha district in August 2020
A woman points to flooded areas of Bangladesh's Gaibandha district in August 2020 (AN/U.S. Embassy Dhaka)

Denmark became the first nation to pledge aid money for a United Nations-brokered system of "loss and damage" climate funding meant to help compensate vulnerable developing nations for the harm and suffering caused by human-caused global warming.

Denmark's Development Minister Flemming Møller Mortensen announced a pledge of more than 100 million Danish crowns (US$13 million) on Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's annual high-level gathering.

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