News at a glance: Climate damage fund, a Palestinian physicist killed, and a dismissal following a Harvard gift

CLIMATE POLICY Climate damage fund launched At the U.N. climate conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, last week, nations agreed to a draft resolution for a “loss and damage” fund to compensate developing countries for harms caused by climate change when adapting to them is not possible. Many of those countries face risks from increased storms, drought, and other effects of global warming, despite not being responsible for the bulk of historic fossil fuel emissions. Wealthy countries have already promised more than $700 million for the fund. But many details of its operation, including the body that will ultimately administer it, remain to be settled. WAR Strike kills Gaza physicist, leader Physicist and mathematician Sufyan Tayeh, rector of the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the northern Gaza Strip on 2 December , according to the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. After earning a doctorate at Ain Shams University in 2007, Tayeh, a Palestinian, led IUG’s physics department from 2008 to 2011 and held the university’s UNESCO Chair for Physical, Astrophysical and Space Sciences in Palestine. Palestinian officials say Tayeh, who was 52, is among the more than 15,000 Gazans killed in the current conflict, which began after Hamas terrorists killed more than 1200 Israeli citizens and foreign nationals, and took nearly 250 hostages, in a 7 Oct...
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