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UN climate conference hoping to make promises reality — but expectations on COP27 are low

Last year, powerful leaders gathered in Glasgow for a UN climate conference that was billed as the "last best chance" to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. At this year's event, things will be more subdued.

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British PM to raise hunger striker Abd el-Fattah's case during COP27

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he will raise the case of Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah with Egypt's leadership during the COP27 climate summit that opened on Sunday, the same day Abd el-Fattah said he would stop drinking water.

Reuters

Climate summit talks begin with breakthrough on loss and damage from extreme weather

U.N. climate talks began in Egypt with a breakthrough agreement to discuss who pays for damages caused by increasingly extreme weather events — an issue that had exposed splits between rich and poor nations.

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COP27 kicks off in Egypt: Everything you need to know

Participants face a sobering reality.

Axios

Climate summit desperate and delayed

Newsroom columnist Rod Oram reports from Egypt as the world gathers, again, to wrangle solutions to climate change

Newsroom.co.nz

COP27: Financing for climate damages gets a foot in the door

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - UN climate negotiations on Sunday offered a sliver of hope and "solidarity" for developing countries battered by increasingly costly impacts of global warming, in agreeing to discuss the thorny issue of money for "loss and damage".

AFP

Sunak writes to family of jailed Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who fear he could die in Egypt before COP27 summit ends

The family are calling for the Prime Minister to urgently secure ‘proof of life’ as Mr Abd El-Fattah’s 200-day hunger strike continues

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Greta Thunberg isn’t alone in rejecting the UN climate conference, but we still have to be there

Thunberg thinks the summit is about ‘greenwashing, lying and cheating’, but it could force the Albanese government to back rhetoric with new pledges

The Guardian - AU

Crisis on the Nile: Global warming and overuse threaten Africa’s longest river

Running from Uganda to Egypt, the Nile is essential to the survival of millions of people living in Africa. But a combination of climate change and human overuse is drying up the river, and worsening conditions for farmers who fear low harvests and loss of electricity.

France 24

Rishi Sunak to demand ‘global mission for clean growth’ as COP27 begins

Rishi Sunak to tell world leaders to move ‘further and faster’ from damaging fossil fuels as UN chief warns of ‘climate chaos’

Evening Standard

Past eight years eight hottest on record, UN report warns

The UN’s weather and climate body outlines ‘chronicle of climate chaos’ as COP27 talks get under way in Egypt.

Al Jazeera

COP27 kicks off in Egypt with a warning to rich countries: no backsliding

The United Nations climate conference, COP27, opened on Sunday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt with a stern warning by its executive secretary that he would not be a “custodian of backsliding” on the goal to slash greenhouse emissions 45 percent by 2030.

Radio France Internationale

UN summit warns against climate backsliding, hopeful on financing

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.

AFP

Will Rishi Sunak’s flying visit to Cop27 show us his real stance on climate?

PM has chance to set out exactly where he stands on green issues, but don’t expect him to give too much away

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Jailed Egypt dissident on 'water strike' as UK vows support

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.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak promises family of Briton on water strike in Egypt jail he will raise case during Cop27

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

The Independent UK

Amnesty: Egypt has days to save jailed activist’s life - OLD

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

ABC News

Australia's plan to co-host the 2026 UN climate conference with Pacific nations met with criticism

Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Pat Conroy says co-hosting a climate conference with Pacific nations will allow Australia to send a powerful message after years as "a laggard on climate change".

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Sisi: Egypt Wants to See COP27 Lead to Implementation of Pledges

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday he was hoping the UN climate summit, COP27, would lead to a phase in which pledges can be implemented. In a post on his official Facebook page, he hoped that the summit, which kicked off in Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, would lead…

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak to raise issue of jailed writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah in Egypt at Cop27

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

AFP

Climate change is speeding up, warns major UN report

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - Each of the last eight years, if projections for 2022 hold, will be hotter than any year prior to 2015, the UN said Sunday, detailing a dramatic increase in the rate of global warming.

The Conversation

A Canadian senator aims to end the widespread financial backing of fossil fuels

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.

AFP

UN climate summit opens with warning against 'backsliding'

Asharq Al-Awsat

COP27 Kicks off with Deal to Discuss Climate Compensation

Delegates from nearly 200 countries kicked off the UN climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to global warming, placing the controversial topic on the agenda for the first time since climate talks began decades ago.

The Independent UK

Foreign Office ‘setting up PM to fail’ at Cop27 over writer jailed in Egypt

Sanaa Seif, the sister of political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah, has spoken about a letter Rishi Sunak sent to their family.

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