‘We can do the impossible’: how key players reacted to end of Cop27 climate summit

Delegates applaud as Cop27 president Sameh Shoukry delivers a statement during the closing plenary at the climate summit in Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday. Photograph: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters

World leaders, diplomats, activists and experts have been reacting to the end of the Cop27 climate conference, which produced a groundbreaking agreement on climate finance for poorer countries but failed to make significant progress on many other matters. Here are some of the reactions from major players.

Laurence Tubiana, one of the architects of the landmark Paris agreement