New U.S. message on climate change: Make China pay

China should contribute its own funds to the cause, U.S. Special Envoy John Kerry told reporters late last month, "especially if they think they're going to continue to go on to the next 30 years with increasing their emissions." John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, speaks during a briefing at the State Department on Nov. 2, 2022. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo The issue, referred to as "loss and damage" in the parlance of the global talks, calls for the U.S. and Europe's industrialized nations to send funding to less-developed countries that have suffered from floods, heatwaves, droughts, rising seas…