The Latest Breaking News from Cop27

Cairo (AFP) - Jailed Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah has stopped drinking water, his family said Sunday, escalating his hunger strike as world leaders arrive in the country for the COP27 climate summit.

Alaa Abdel-Fattah’s sister concerned the Prime Minister does not just pay “lip service” as she fears sibling could die during summit

The head of Amnesty International says that the proceedings of COP27 will be stained by the death of Egypt's leading rights activist on a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him within days

Global efforts to limit climate change can't happen without more aid. Rich countries promised $100 billion to poorer ones to cope with global warming but seven years later, have yet to deliver.

Contentious opening to UN climate conference as delegates struggle to reach agreement on discussion of loss and damage

Hunger striker’s sister welcomes news but says he may die before end of summit

Report at Cop27 shows the world is now deep into the climate emergency, with the 1.5C heating limit ‘barely within reach’

After Johnson’s weak energy plan and Truss’s scepticism, we have Rishi Sunak, who didn’t even want to attend, says freelance journalist Lucy Sherriff

Fossil fuels have provided a crucial source of energy over the past 200 years. But they also account for 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, enable massive environmental destruction and support many brutal regimes.

The United Nations climate change conference, COP27, has begun in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. In the lead-up to the conference, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations.

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - The UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday in Egypt with warnings against backsliding on efforts to cut emissions and calls for rich nations to compensate poor countries after a year of extreme weather disasters.