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US refuses climate reparations for developing nations
(www.bbc.com)
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Another post about this where people didn't read the article, but jump to anti-American conclusions. This story is about American politicians arguing semantics. The article says that America does contribute to a fund that was agreed upon by many countries in a summit in Egypt. Whether that is fair is debatable, but America is paying in to it.
Every country is refusing to use the term "reparations" because it implies legal guilt, and no country wants to get "sued" by the world.
Again, this is a pointless argument about semantics, and what term to use.
That fund's goal doesn't even cover $1B per country and is done voluntarily from good will and even private institutions. From the other article you can see that the fund is basically just an investment gig for loans rather than donations out their well intentioned hearts. The USA has to pay compensation for Operation Condor at the very least, and that should not be something they can just opt out of. And that should only be the start if they want to get treated like allies and equals.
We're going to need a JDPON to get America to pay its tens of trillions of dollars reparations debt, huh?