reparations

CLIMATE:

The latest international talks on climate change have opened today:

COP28: Can a climate summit in an oil state change anything? - BBC News

Too little. Too late. Too slow. But could COP yet turn the tide on climate change?

There's a lot of debate around 'reparations':

There is a word that we are going to hear once COP28 gets underway in Dubai later this week: ‘reparations’. While US climate envoy John Kerry has tried to rule out any US agreement to pay reparations to countries affected by what he himself might claim were ‘climate-related disasters’, many developing countries are determined to put compensation top of the agenda, and push it far further than the agreement last year at COP27 to create a ‘loss and damage’ fund whereby developed nations hand out money to poor ones deemed to be affected by climate change.

Climate reparations are an awful idea | The Spectator

US refuses climate reparations for developing nations - BBC News

Rich countries with high greenhouse gas emissions could pay $170tn in climate reparations | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Are climate reparations finally on the way for vulnerable countries? | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera

SLAVERY:

The idea of 'reparations' is being applied in other contentious areas:

Brazil bank's ties to slavery reopen wounds, reparations debate

African and Caribbean nations agree move to seek reparations for slavery | Slavery | The Guardian

Big business benefited from slavery – let it pay reparations | Slavery | The Guardian

Bristol University to change logo associated with Edward Colston and start £10m 'reparations' fund - Bristol Live

EMPIRE:

From King Charles III to the publishers of the Guardian, they fall over themselves to admit to crimes they did not commit. Black impotence and white guilt make a heady mixture. What history clearly shows is that reparations have always represented the interests of the compensating power, not the compensated. Historical guilt is a luxury only the very rich can afford.

Against reparations - spiked

‘Inevitable’ India’s jewels taken by British empire will be returned, says author | British empire | The Guardian

£18 trillion - what Britain owes in reparations. Time to pay up. - Voice Online

Former British colonies renew calls for reparations on Emancipation Day | Slavery News | Al Jazeera

WAR:

Ukraine urges world court to impose 'reparations' over Russia war

Council of Europe Summit creates register of damage for Ukraine as first step towards an international compensation mechanism for victims of Russian aggression - Portal

Should Ukraine get Russia’s frozen reserves?

AND:

Poland’s ruling party hopes call for German war reparations can swing election – POLITICO

Poland should pay Russia $750bn for WW2 “liberation”, says chairman of State Duma | Notes From Poland

AND:

Italian Jewish leader says new $67 million Holocaust reparations fund 'a mockery' | The Times of Israel

Holocaust survivors to receive $1.4 billion in payments from Germany next year : NPR

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