Beyond the headlines from the annual U.N. climate conference, progress in advancing the global climate agenda relies on the behind-the-scenes efforts of technocrats over years.
Following two weeks of negotiations that felt doomed to go nowhere, the COP27 climate conference delivered a breakthrough deal to help developing nations cope with the often catastrophic effects of climate change. The Washington Post
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The biggest win on climate since the Paris Agreement in 2015…or the biggest loss?
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Cop27 agrees to historic ‘loss and damage’ fund to compensate developing countries for climate impacts
Fund’s passage hailed as potential turning point that acknowledges the vast inequities of the climate crisisA historic deal to set up a “loss and damage” fund to pay poorer countries harmed by the impacts of the climate crisis has been agreed to at a UN summi…
Countries agreed early Sunday at the COP27 climate summit to set up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters, but paused before backing a wider deal outlining global r…
Climate action group believes US is blocking progress on global heating by rejecting payments to poorer countriesThe US has been named the “colossal fossil” of the Cop27 climate talks by campaigners who criticised the country for its intransigence in providin…
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COP27: Developing nations demand climate damage fund, say anything less is a betrayal – Reuters
The COP27 climate summit in Egypt must establish a fund to help countries recover from the damage caused by climate disasters, ministers representing developing nations said on Thursday.
The world has been ignoring warnings about climate change while spending trillions of dollars on war, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in a speech at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt on Wednesday.
Eleven-year-old Indian climate activist Licypriya Kangujam’s dogged questioning of Britain’s climate minister Zac Goldsmith about the fate of climate activists