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Countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the Cop27 climate summit early on Sunday that will set up a fund to help poor countries battered by climate disasters, but does not boost efforts to tackle the emissions causing them. France said it regretted the agreement's "lack of ambition".

The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which had appeared close to collapse on Saturday morning, were poised for a last-minute deal after progress on a landmark agreement to pay poorer countries for harm caused by global warming.

Developed countries agree to ‘loss and damage’ fund for vulnerable nations, but delay approving wider deal

The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which had appeared close to collapse on Saturday morning, edged toward a last-minute deal after progress on a landmark agreement to pay poorer countries for harm caused by global warming.

Countries urged to make progress as ‘untransparent, unpredictable and chaotic’ talks in danger of collapse

Kingdom’s Cop27 announcement of new storage hub part of pattern of delaying fossil fuel transition, experts say

Philanthropic foundations have made some new commitments at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt over the past two weeks

Negotiations are centred on ‘loss and damages’ – but some think that language does not fully account for climate debt

The most significant step came in last year’s Glasgow Cop26 when countries reached a pained consensus supporting a ‘phase down’ of coal power

The weather presenter has been back on the news programme this week but not in the studio

World faces ‘stark reality that there is no safe limit of global warming for coral reefs’, says researcher