Alan Kohler: COP27 – we’ll do it this year, for sure, you just wait

Thirty years of fine words on climate change at COPs have achieved nothing, writes Alan Kohler. Photo: TND/Getty

World leaders, apart from Anthony Albanese, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, are gathering in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh for the 27th conference of parties (COP27) to deal with climate change.

COP1 was held in Berlin in 1995, three years after the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was first established, and it was agreed then that “the parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind”.