Loss and damage issue keeps us Cop27 negotiators wrangling late into the night

Delegates at the Cop27 meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Photograph: Sedat Suna/EPA

Cop27 had not even officially opened, and already we delegates found ourselves staying up all night wrangling over important issues. In this case, it was loss and damage – and there may be many more late nights to come on that issue.

At the official start of the conference of the parties to the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC), the conference must first of all achieve consensus on the agenda.