For a summit meant to secure the future of the world, it boasts only a decent attendance. US President Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron of France and our own Rishi Sunak are all at COP27 in Egypt but leaders from some of the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide such as China, India and Canada are all conspicuous by their absences.
UN secretary-general António Guterres said “COP27 must be the place to close the ambition gap, the credibility gap and the solidarity gap”. If not, we will be “doomed”. Indeed, we are on course for warming of 2.8C this century, a rise that would lead to climate disaster.
