A report released by an environmental and human rights organisation reveals that 96 percent of the oil and gas industry is expanding despite “Net-Zero” climate pledges.
While receiving praise for the creation of a "loss and damage" fund, COP27 has been criticised over a failure to push further efforts on cutting emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Summit participants agree to compensate poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries' carbon pollution.
A final text to conclude the summit has yet to be agreed upon, with outstanding issues including the creation of a new fund for reparations.
Nakeeyat Dramani Sam, 10, discusses sufferings in her country due to floods and asks rich nations, which have contributed most to climate crisis, to compensate developing countries for the damage.
Delegates from nearly 200 nations are in Egypt's Sharm el Sheikh, trying to come to an agreement over how wealthy countries could offer support to developing ones who were most affected by the climate crisis.
Negotiations have been gridlocked, with developing countries unifying behind a call for COP27 to create a specific loss and damage fund - an idea that has faced reluctance from richer polluters wary of liability.
Middle East does not lack drinking water, but enough water to produce food, says UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
President-elect Lula da Silva receives a superstar welcome at COP27 summit in Egypt as he promises to recommit the rainforest nation to tackling illegal deforestation and mining "without respite."
Despite being least responsible for carbon emissions, some of the countries in Africa are the hardest hit by an onslaught of weather extremes.
Türkiye has revised its target of reducing carbon emissions from 21 percent to 41 percent by the year 2030, according to Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum.
The nation's foreign minister has announced plans at the COP27 climate summit to digitise the Pacific island in order to preserve its history and culture in the face of the climate crisis.
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