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COP27: how the fossil fuel lobby crowded out calls for climate justice

COP27 has just wrapped up. Despite much excitement over a new fund to address “loss and damage” caused by climate change, there is also anger about perceived backsliding on commitments to lower emissions and phase out fossil fuels.

The Conversation

Ireland's COP27 team praised for role in 'historic' loss and damage fund for developing countries

Eamon Ryan says while compromises were made, the loss and damage breakthrough means 'millions of people whose land, water sources and livelihoods are being eroded every day because climate change can look forward to strengthened support and protection'

Irish Mirror

A deal on loss and damage, but a blow to 1.5C – what will be Cop27’s legacy?

Anger at western hypocrisy heated to boiling point in Sharm el-Sheikh, but after intense talks the impasse was finally broken

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COP 27 ends with historic win and abysmal fail

Rod Oram analyses the final, teeth-pulling outcome of the global climate summit in Egypt - a step forward but wide steps sideways as well

Newsroom.co.nz

COP27: Experts welcome historic move on loss and damage fund but rue weak outcome of climate talks on fossil fuel emission

NEW DELHI: Experts, observers of the UN processes and civil society groups found themselves on the same page while welcoming the landmark agreement on setting up a new fund for loss and damage to support victims of climate crisis but many of them even pointed out how failure to agree…

The Times of India

Cop27 reaches landmark deal on climate damage fund, but little else

Countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the Cop27 climate summit early on Sunday that will set up a fund to help poor countries battered by climate disasters, but does not boost efforts to tackle the emissions causing them. France said it regretted the agreement's "lack of ambition".

Radio France Internationale

COP27 poised for deal after breakthrough on climate payments

The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which had appeared close to collapse on Saturday morning, were poised for a last-minute deal after progress on a landmark agreement to pay poorer countries for harm caused by global warming.

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Rich nations relent on climate aid to poor at Cop27

Developed countries agree to ‘loss and damage’ fund for vulnerable nations, but delay approving wider deal

The Guardian - UK

COP27 edges toward deal after progress on climate payments

The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which had appeared close to collapse on Saturday morning, edged toward a last-minute deal after progress on a landmark agreement to pay poorer countries for harm caused by global warming.

Tribune News Service

Cop27 talks in disarray with 1.5C goal at risk, campaigners warn

Countries urged to make progress as ‘untransparent, unpredictable and chaotic’ talks in danger of collapse

The Guardian - UK

‘False solutions’: scepticism over Saudi carbon capture plan

Kingdom’s Cop27 announcement of new storage hub part of pattern of delaying fossil fuel transition, experts say

The Guardian - UK

Foundations call for cooperation, some new pledges at COP27

Philanthropic foundations have made some new commitments at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt over the past two weeks

The Independent UK

Cop27: is it right to talk of ‘reparations’?

Negotiations are centred on ‘loss and damages’ – but some think that language does not fully account for climate debt

The Guardian - UK

Getting rid of fossil fuels at a climate summit is harder than you’d think

The most significant step came in last year’s Glasgow Cop26 when countries reached a pained consensus supporting a ‘phase down’ of coal power

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ITV Good Morning Britain's Laura Tobin justifies flying to Egypt for COP27 after being branded 'hypocrite'

The weather presenter has been back on the news programme this week but not in the studio

The Guardian - US

Cop27: coral conservation groups alarmed over ‘catastrophic losses’

World faces ‘stark reality that there is no safe limit of global warming for coral reefs’, says researcher

Al Jazeera

In a polluted Indian village, protesters rebuke COP27 sponsorship

Coca-Cola is among several sponsors and partners whose track record is deemed incompatible with the climate summit.

Reuters

China complains over support for Taiwan at COP27 climate summit

China on Tuesday criticised calls made by some COP27 delegations for Taiwan to be included in the annual climate talks process.

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The Conversation

What my undercover investigations at arms fairs reveal about how the west supports military dictatorships

COP27 has some of the most authoritarian security of any of the COP summits. Set in the walled resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, it is surrounded by 36km of concrete and razor wire, overseen by new surveillance technologies and a “security observatory”.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US, China Climate Envoys Meet at COP27 Summit in Egypt

US climate envoy John Kerry met Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate negotiations in Egypt in a further hint of improving relations between the world's top two polluters, seen as vital for substantial progress against global warming. The meeting between Kerry and China's top climate official…

AAP

Country is back on climate change: Bowen

In his speech to the COP27 summit in Egypt, Chris Bowen says Australia is back as a key collaborator to deal with the threat of climate change.

Tribune News Service

Clock is ticking for negotiators at climate conference in Egypt

It’s crunch time for diplomats at the United Nations-sponsored COP27 climate conference in Egypt, with dwindling days left to resolve the thorny issue of how poor countries should be compensated for the harm inflicted by global warming they didn’t cause.

Newsroom.co.nz

Rod Oram: Climate summit clogged by indecision

Political leaders at the global climate summit are handed an over-long list of unsolved issues to sort this week - and NZ wins Fossil of the Day award

Fortune

The 1.5°C global temperature limit is in jeopardy at COP27

Some countries want to remove the 1.5°C limit on temperature increase as fossil fuel lobbyists water down talks at the UN Climate Conference

The Independent UK

Climate confab heads into final week, warming goal uncertain

Global climate talks in Egypt are headed into their second half with plenty of uncertainty left over whether there’ll be a substantial deal to combat climate change

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