The Latest Breaking News from Cop27

Every fraction of a degree increases human suffering, so the fight to end the fossil fuel industry must ramp up

For 30 years, developing nations have fought to establish an international fund to pay for the “loss and damage” they suffer as a result of climate change. As the COP27 climate summit in Egypt wrapped up over the weekend, they finally succeeded.

World Bank officials stressed that climate challenges in the Middle East included water scarcity, food shortage, and energy security, noting that the Saudi Green Initiative was an example to follow in order to address these threats. Asharq Al-Awsat interviewed Paul Noumba Um, the Regional Director of the World Bank’s Infrastructure…

Nations across the world finalised an agreement which established a fund to help poorer nations who are often the victims of climate-worsened…

The First Minister welcomed a breakthrough on 'loss and damage' but the Scottish Greens claimed COP27 had been 'yet another failure'.

While the UN climate summit in Egypt concluded with a landmark decision to establish a fund to address loss and damage. Read on for details:

World leaders, diplomats and activists respond to signing of ‘historic’ deal as climate talks wrap up

‘In the end we delivered. We listened to the calls of anguish and despair,’ Sameh Shoukry the Egyptian foreign minister and president of the summit said

An often fraught UN climate summit wrapped up on Sunday with sweeping agreement on how to tackle global warming and a "historic" deal to create a special fund to cover the damages suffered by vulnerable nations. The two-week talks, which at times appeared to teeter on the brink of collapse,…

The agreement would pave the way for a fund to compensate developing countries for climate damages.

The COP27 summit on Sunday agreed an overarching climate deal at a closing plenary session in Sharm el-Sheikh.