Hundreds of activists marched into the UN Climate Change Conference in the Egyptian town of Sharm El-Sheikh on Saturday, demanding reparations for damages caused by climate change in poor regions. In a significant step, delegates of the conference agreed last week to place the contentious issue of loss and damage funding on the agenda for the first time. Developing countries had long pressed for the creation of a financial mechanism for addressing climate-induced issues in poor countries. Holding signs and banners calling for climate justice, some demonstrators chanted, “pay up for loss and da…