I am going to Cop27 in Egypt - but can the UN climate conference deliver? | Adam Morton

Greta Thunberg thinks the summit is about 'greenwashing, lying and cheating', however it could force the Albanese government to back rhetoric with new pledgesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastGreta Thunberg is not a fan of Cop27, the climate conference that got under way in Egypt overnight on Sunday. She reckons it's just a chance for the powerful to get away with "greenwashing, lying and cheating", and that the annual summits of national governments, policy experts, spruikers and hangers-on aren't working. She's not going.She might be right not to go. As a privileged middle-aged man from a generation that has failed to do enough to address the climate crisis - more than half all historic emissions have been in the past 30 years - I'm not here to say she's wrong. Continue reading...