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DARK SECRETS: 2 - The Real Truth

Will the 'loss and damage' fund happen?

The new 'loss and damage' fund aims to help vulnerable nations — but is it only a pipe dream?

Salon

The COP no one wants you to know about

COP15 is the biodiversity equivalent of COP27–but it's being largely ignored by the media and politicians.

Fortune

The food emissions ‘solutions’ alarming experts after Cop27

The food industry’s fingerprints were all over the solutions touted at the UN climate summit last month, campaigners and NGOs say

The Guardian - US

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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

COP27 suggests we'll exceed 1.5 degrees

COP27 proved we have a long way to go to reduce our emissions in order to not exceed the tipping point

Salon

Fiance of U.S. citizen detained in UAE fears he will be extradited to Egypt

An Egyptian-American national detained while visiting the United Arab Emirates fears he will be extradited to Egypt for criticising authorities there ahead of the country hosting the COP27 climate conference last month, his fiance said on Sunday.

Reuters

Climate meeting under scrutiny

Despite establishing a "loss and damage" fund to help developing countries deal with the impacts of climate disasters, the negotiations at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt this year still failed to deliver meaningful commitments to phase out fossil fuels and combat the climate crisis.

Bangkok Post

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Climate change is driving up food prices

COP27 and food price inflation are part of the same story

Salon

COP27 failed - London must take its own action

Londoners need to be prepared for more death and destruction from extreme weather and sea-level rise following the disappointing outcome from COP27 in Egypt.

Evening Standard

COP27 failed. So why continue with these UN climate summits?

Climate change is an existential threat to human civilization and planetary ecosystems. Yet despite 27 UN Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings that have taken place so far, the international community has been unable to ward off imminent disaster.

The Conversation

Climate Change is Driving Up Food Prices

Tip to journalists: COP27 and food price inflation are part of the same story.

Capital & Main

COP27 was disappointing, but 2022 remains an historic year for international climate policy

This year’s global climate negotiations at the COP27 in Egypt were disappointing. In particular, the international commitment to limit planetary warming to 1.5℃ remains on “life support”.

The Conversation

To fight the climate crisis, we need to stop expanding offshore drilling for oil and gas

Environmental disaster struck the shores of Peru on Jan. 15, 2022, when Spanish energy company Repsol spilled 12,000 barrels of crude oil into the Bay of Lima after its tanker ruptured. The spill endangered 180,000 birds and destroyed the livelihoods of 5,000 families.

The Conversation

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.

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The Conversation

Is liberal governance unable to deal with global threats?

The translated version of the original article in French has been updated to include the authors’ comments on COP27.

The Conversation

COP27 'loss and damage' fund: A historic decision amid discouraging results

The recent COP27 climate conference was billed as the moment to implement the climate change commitments states made at COP21, held in Paris in December 2015.

Salon

COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

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

The Guardian - UK

Gordon Brown says China must pay into climate fund for poor countries

Former prime minister says US and Europe will pay biggest share of loss and damage fund, but China must too

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Trillions needed to fight climate change

At COP 27, negotiators have been haggling over how to pay for the mounting costs of climate change

Newsroom.co.nz

The Week in Detail: COP27, Te Urewera, and Make It 16

The news, explained. Join Newsroom's Sharon Brettkelly & Emile Donovan every weekday as they make sense of the big stories with the New Zealand's best journalists and experts.

The Conversation

Tackling climate change will require reforming the World Bank and IMF – here are two options

A global transition to a low-carbon economy will require investments of at least US$4 trillion a year (£3.4 trillion) according to the implementation plan agreed at COP27 UN climate change summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Delivering this funding will involve nothing less than “a swift and comprehensive transformation of the…

Newsroom.co.nz

NZ is on climate glide time

Many firsts were achieved at COP27 to which Aotearoa enthusiastically signed up, but we have a chasm between climate commitment and action.

The Conversation

COP27 roundup: what went wrong and what happens next

COP27, the latest UN climate change summit which was held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, has been condemned for failing to summon an adequate response to the escalating climate crisis. Negotiators did manage to preserve a commitment made in Paris in 2015 to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But emissions of…

Newcastle Herald

Let's pool resources to bring back a Newcastle childhood landmark

Council officers had told me that they don't have the equipment to do the job. Well, I say they have to hire the equipment.

Salon

The climate reparations battle at COP27

How developing countries' 30-year battle for "loss and damage" funding culminated in a new agreement in Egypt.

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