A UNITED NATIONS’ group called today for compensation to poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the Cop27 agenda.

Least Developed Countries group chairwoman Madeleine Diouf Sarr said that the UN conference in Egypt next month should “capture the voice and needs of the most climate-vulnerable nations and deliver climate justice.”

Ms Sarr said the group, comprised of 46 nations that make up just a small fraction of global emissions, would like to see “an agreement to establish a dedicated financial facility” that pays nations that are already facing the effects of climate change at the summit.