COP27

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Countries agreed early Sunday (Nov 20) at the COP27 climate summit to set up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters, but delayed approving a wider deal outlining global resolve to fight…

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SHARM EL SHEIKH (EGYPT): The United Nations COP27summit in Egypt wrapped up Sunday with delegates adopting two main texts: a final declaration and a landmark deal on climate "loss and damage". Here are the main points from the two…

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: US climate envoy John Kerry called on Beijing on Sunday (Nov 20) to "accelerate progress together" on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, following a meeting with his Chinese counterpart at COP27 in Egypt. Kerry and…

For the first time, the world’s nations agreed to contribute to the cost of the harm an overheated planet causes to developing nations, but they concluded Sunday’s marathon climate talks without doing anything more to address the burning of…

Other key points of contention were left ambiguous, or put into the remit of a new transitional committee that will be tasked with coming up with a plan for making the decisions a reality for the 2023 UN climate summit in Dubai. A…

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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.…

<!-- -->Delegates applauded after the fund was adoptedEgypt: 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…