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Delegates from nearly 200 countries have kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to global warming.
New Zealand's climate change minister James Shaw and 13 officials are among the estimated 40-thousand attending.
It's the first time the issue of compensation for developing countries has been on the agenda of the annual summit and comes as the UN weather and climate agency released a new report saying the past eight years were on track to be the warmest on record.
Kathryn speaks with the Guardian's Environment Correspondent, Fiona Harvey from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt.
