Here are the top COP27 and Climate stories compiled from major international English-language news outlets.
Announcements
- Climate fund: Donor base, beneficiaries to be clarified by ’23 (The Times of India)
“Donor base and beneficiaries’ points on the loss and damage fund agreement at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh will be clarified by next year (COP28) as big economies like India and China have not been in favour of being mandatory contributors to the fund.”
“The construction of one of the world’s largest wind farms in Egypt is set to start in 2024 and could provide electricity to Europe and Saudi Arabia, according to one of the main companies backing the $11 billion project.”
What’s at stake
“For the first time, the nations of the world decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is inflicting on poor countries, but they finished marathon climate talks without further addressing the root cause of those disasters — the burning of fossil fuels.”
- We should have done much more’: Anger as oil nations ‘stonewall’ COP27 over emissions (Recharge News)
- China and US held ‘constructive’ climate talks with more to follow, Beijing’s envoy says (South China Morning Post)
- COP27 summit strikes deal to fund climate damages, leaves EU disappointed (Euractiv)
- Cop27 deal leaves 1.5C global heating pledge ‘on life support,’ says Alok Sharma (The Independent)
- ‘World has waited far too long for this’: India on compensation fund approved at UN climate talk (The Times of India)
- Analysis: Australia’s climate policies don’t match its big talk at COP27 (Reuters) COP27: How politics put climate on back-burner at fraught summit (Hindustan Times)
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