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You may be hearing the phrase “loss and damage” in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference.

It refers to the costs, both economic and physical, that developing countries are facing from climate change impacts. Many of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries have done little to cause climate change, yet they are experiencing extreme heat waves, floods and other climate-related disasters. They want wealthier nations – historically the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions – to pay for the harm.

Prolonged drought across the Horn of Africa over the past four consecutive rainy seasons has left some 18 million people affected by food shortages in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya

By Idris Mukhtar, CNN

Published 7:45 AM EDT, Sat November 5, 2022

The carcass of an adult elephant, which died during the drought, is seen in Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, Samburu, Kenya on October 12, 2022.Luis Tato/AFP/Getty ImagesCNN — 

Hundreds of elephants, wildebeests, and zebras have died across Kenya amid the nation’s longest drought in decades.

“The Kenya Wildlife Service Rangers, Community Scouts, and Research Teams counted the deaths of 205 elephants, 512 wildebeests, 381 common zebras, 51 buffalos, 49 Grevy’s zebras, and 12 giraffes in the past nine months,” a report released Friday by the country’s Ministry of Tourism said.