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Factbox-Countries and rival interests at the COP27 climate talks

Each of the 197 signatories to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has its own concerns and interests, which makes reaching consensus a daunting challenge.

Reuters · Nov 8, 2022

COP27: three reasons rich countries can no longer ignore calls to pay developing world for climate havoc

Payments from high-emitting countries to mitigate the harm that climate change has caused in the most vulnerable parts of the world is finally on the agenda for discussion at a global climate change summit, more than 30 years after the idea was first articulated by delegates from small island developing…

The Conversation · Nov 7, 2022

Climate talks must wrench attention from competing crises

This year's U.N. climate conference must wrench global leaders' attention back to global warming as multiple crises, including a looming global recession and war in Europe, vie for attention, former U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa told Reuters.

Reuters · Nov 7, 2022

Earth’s on track to warm above 2C despite climate action

Government plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions aren’t enough to avoid catastrophic global warming, with the planet on track to heat up between 2.1 and 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century compared to pre-industrial times, according to a new report from the United Nations Framework Convention on…

Tribune News Service · Oct 26, 2022

What it will take to avert a global climate catastrophe

The Global Stocktake of 2023 is a major opportunity for emerging economies and least developed countries to call richer countries to account.

The Hindu · Oct 3, 2022

India’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution to combat climate change

The updated NDC is a step towards India’s goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2070.

The Hindu · Sep 9, 2022

Egyptian NGOs complain of being shut out of Cop27 climate summit

Civil society groups say covert screening process excluded government’s critics

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2022

Manchin's small step a big leap for mankind

On a celebratory night in late 2016, the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower were lit up in green to remind the world to implement the Paris climate agreement. Yet in recent years, climate legislation in the United States has been stuck at a red light, most recently because…

Bangkok Post · Aug 2, 2022

UN urged to move Cop27 from Egypt over ‘LGBTQ+ torture’

US adviser to the White House and partner call on UN to move climate change summit over fears they would be targeted

The Guardian - US · Jul 15, 2022

UN climate talks end in stalemate and ‘hypocrisy’ allegation

Adviser says European nations are sourcing fossil fuels abroad but failing to help developing countries

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2022