SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The first draft of a deal being hashed out at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt would keep a target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but leaves many of the most contentious issues in the talks...
Egypt’s COP27 president urged negotiators to overcome their differences, while poor nations slammed the draft as unambitious for not addressing their need for money to cope with the damage already being wrought by climate-driven storms, droughts and floods.
the level of warming beyond which scientists say climate change impacts dangerously spiral. Kerry declined to name the countries. “Anything less than establishing a loss and damage fund at this COP is a betrayal of the people who are working so hard to clean up this environment, and the people fighting for humanity,” said Molwyn Joseph, Antigua and Barbuda’s environment minister.
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