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.