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COP27: Landmark ‘loss and damage’ fund for at risk states agreed

‘In the end we delivered. We listened to the calls of anguish and despair,’ Sameh Shoukry the Egyptian foreign minister and president of the summit said

Evening Standard

COP27 Summit Strikes Historic Deal to Fund Climate Damages

An often fraught UN climate summit wrapped up on Sunday with sweeping agreement on how to tackle global warming and a "historic" deal to create a special fund to cover the damages suffered by vulnerable nations. The two-week talks, which at times appeared to teeter on the brink of collapse,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Climate summit brings historic deal on climate damage, stalls on cuts

The agreement would pave the way for a fund to compensate developing countries for climate damages.

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COP27 summit strikes historic deal to fund climate damages

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - A fraught UN climate summit wrapped up Sunday with a landmark deal on funding to help vulnerable countries cope with devastating impacts of global warming -- but also anger over a failure to push further ambition on cutting emissions.

AFP

COP27 summit agrees climate deal

The COP27 summit on Sunday agreed an overarching climate deal at a closing plenary session in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Reuters

UN climate summit adopts 'loss and damage' fund

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - The UN's COP27 climate summit approved on Sunday the creation of a special fund to cover the damages suffered by vulnerable nations battered by the impacts of global warming.

AFP

COP27 delivers climate fund breakthrough at cost of progress on emissions

(This Nov. 20 story has been refiled to fix spelling error in paragraph 10)

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Climate summit approves deal to fund "loss and damage"

A plenary session of the COP27 climate summit approved a deal on Sunday covering funding arrangements for loss and damage from climate change suffered by vulnerable countries.

Reuters

Analysis-Australia's climate policies don't match its big talk at COP27

Australia is talking up its green credentials at the annual U.N. climate summit, but its policies do not match the portrayal as it continues to support new mining and energy projects, and fuels the crisis through its enormous fossil fuel exports.

Reuters

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

Five crucial issues in fight to save planet – and what Cop27 did about them

This month’s environmental summit opened as our planet wilts under the impact of climate change. Here we examine five key areas and assess what success – if any – was achieved in Egypt

The Guardian - UK

COP27: China's climate envoy says expects cooperation with U.S. to continue

China's top climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua said on Saturday he expects to continue direct cooperation on climate change with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry after the COP27 summit taking place in Egypt comes to a close.

Reuters

China and US renew commitment to tackling climate crisis but differences remain

Xie Zhenhua said he’d had ‘very constructive discussions’ with John Kerry at Cop27 but there’s no change on finance issues

The Guardian - UK

Explainer - COP27: What is 'Loss and Damage' funding, and who should pay?

The question of whether rich nations should offer funding to vulnerable states hit by climate-fuelled disaster has dominated negotiations among nearly 200 countries at this year's U.N. climate summit in Egypt.

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AFP

Climate fund breakthrough offers 'hope' at UN COP27 talks

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - COP27 host Egypt scrambled to salvage UN climate talks Saturday with the European Union and Pakistan signalling a breakthrough over the contentious issue of "loss and damage" funding for climate vulnerable nations.

Reuters

COP27 draft climate deal published but gaps remain

The U.N. climate agency on Saturday published an updated draft of a proposed final agreement for the COP27 summit, fleshing out some key parts of the deal countries are struggling to reach.

Salon

A climate reparations insurance scheme

A group of countries led by Germany announced a climate insurance scheme called the Global Shield at COP27

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

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Reuters

COP27 climate summit considers new proposal for 'loss and damage' fund

The United Nations climate agency on Saturday published a draft proposal for a deal to tackle the issue of "loss and damage" that said the COP27 summit would agree to launch a new fund to help countries cope with the cost of climate damage.

Radio France Internationale

Cop27: crunch climate talks teeter on the edge

UN climate talks were thrown into disarray Saturday as the EU rejected a proposal by host country Egypt for lacking ambition on emissions cuts and warned it would rather leave with no deal than a bad one. But Egypt's Foreign Minister said he was hoping for a breakthrough and called…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Arabia Steps up ‘Climate Battle’ Efforts

The Saudi pavilion at COP27 was one of the most crowded places during the days of the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh. Visitors did not only attend seminars and discussion sessions, they also met researchers who have introduced programs directed to combating climate change to light. While Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz…

The Guardian - UK

EU president says Cop27 deal is ‘small step towards climate justice’ but warns much more to be done – as it happened

Despite breakthrough on fund for developing nations, Ursula von der Leyen says Cop27 has not delivered on commitment to phase down fossil fuels

Reuters

Africa climate activists have mixed feelings about COP27

COP27 climate talks dragged into the weekend after negotiators failed to agree on a final deal at the close on Friday, and African activists tried to hold on to dimming hopes that the event could bring meaningful changes to their continent.

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

AFP

Climate damages are key flashpoint as UN COP talks go overtime

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - Climate negotiators were grappling for an agreement Saturday at the UN COP27 in Egypt after high stakes talks went deep into the night with key sticking points over funding for countries wracked by climate disasters and ambition in tackling global warming.

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