What happened at Cop27 on day five?
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Summary:
US president Joe Biden addressed the conference, asking world leaders to “do more”.
He used the speech to unveil a number of new measures, including a plan to slash emissions of methane in the US, support new early warning systems for extreme weather disasters in Africa, and a deal to back new solar and wind projects in Egypt in return for the country decommissioning gas power plants and cutting its emissions.
The speech was briefly interrupted by youth and Indigenous activists from the US, calling on Biden to stop pushing fossil fuel extraction.
Grant Shapps, the UK business secretary, said that the UK would continue to use and develop North Sea oil and gas as long as it generated lower carbon dioxide emissions than that created by importing gas from overseas.
US House speaker Nancy Pelosi told Cop27: “We have left incrementalism in the dust, this is about transformation.” She said she hoped Cop27 would “help save the world for the children”.
Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub said people who call for the end of the oil and gas industry “have no clue what that would mean” and refused to say whether she accepted her company’s role in climate disasters.
An analysis of delegates found that there had been an “explosion” in fossil fuel lobbyists attending the climate summit this year, with 636 in attendance, a rise of more than 25% since Cop26 in Glasgow.
Gas producers and their financial backers have been accused of using Cop27 as an opportunity to rebrand natural gas as a transition fuel rather than a fossil fuel.
Medics from across the world have just staged a protest to highlight how climate carnage is killing their patients, including performing CPR on an inflatable globe.
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As Joe Biden drops into the Cop27 climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Mohamed Adow, Director of Power Shift Africa, said:
“Joe Biden comes to Cop27 and makes new promises but his old promises have not even been fulfilled. I’d rather have one apple in my hand than the promise of five that never come. Biden is throwing crumbs into lots of different pots. That might sound impressive but it’s not the help that is needed. We need straightforward funding that directly goes to communities and countries.
“He is like a salesman selling goods with endless small print. Proper support comes in short words that are easily understandable, not a long list of caveats and explanations about which bizarre scheme they are throwing some scraps into.”
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