Cop27: another blow to 1.5C?

At Cop27 in Egypt, negotiations ran 40 hours past the Friday night deadline. Country delegates were able to agree a historic deal on loss and damage, but less progress was made on global fossil fuel emission targetsThe Guardian's environment correspondent, Fiona Harvey, has attended 16 Cops, and found the atmosphere at Cop27 in Egypt particularly fraught. "They're not normally quite as bad as this," she tells Hannah Moore. "We have a pretty dreadful geopolitical situation around the world at the moment." With countries dealing with the war in Ukraine, the food price crisis and the Covid pandemic, the stage was set for a difficult negotiation.Developing countries have been arguing for decades that there should be financial support to help them rebuild physical and social infrastructure when a climate disaster strikes. After tense talks, a loss and damage fund was finally agreed upon. However, delegates were not able to strengthen their commitment to limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Continue reading...