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COP27 flinched on phasing out oil

Widespread anxieties about energy made many governments cautious about phasing out all fossil fuels

Salon

Tuvalu prepares to recede into the sea

The small Pacific island aspires to maintain its sovereignty even as it disappears into the ocean

Salon

Warning signs: inside the 2 December Guardian Weekly

China and the zero-Covid protests. Plus: humans versus nature at Cop15

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COP27 climate summit missed chance for ambition on fossil fuels, critics say

Fossil fuel producers benefited from sympathetic treatment in Egypt at the COP27 climate talks, government officials said, bringing their influence to bear in rushed final negotiations and frustrating those who hoped for a more ambitious outcome.

Reuters

COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

The climate conference delivered a historic deal on loss and damage — but little else

Salon

COP27 flinched on phasing out 'all fossil fuels'. What's next for the fight to keep them in the ground?

The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once again, with a tussle over the place of fossil fuels in the global economy.

The Conversation

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Tribune News Service

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

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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.

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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

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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

Manchester Evening News

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.

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”.

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