Countries adopted a hard\u002Dfought agreement at the COP27 summit that sets up a fund to help poor nations being battered by climate disasters.
After tense negotiations that ran through the night, the Egyptian COP27 presidency released the final text for a deal and simultaneously called a plenary session to quickly gavel it through.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Delegates praised the breakthrough on setting up the fund as climate justice, for its aim in helping vulnerable countries cope with storms, floods and other disasters being fueled by rich nations’ historic carbon emissions. The United States also supported the loss and damage provision, but climate envoy John Kerry did not attend the session after testing positive for COVID-19 this week.tap here to see other videos from our teamNegotiators from the European Union and other countries had said earlier that they were worried about efforts to block measures to strengthen last year’s Glasgow Climate Pact.
It instead called on countries to take steps toward “the phasedown of unabated coal power and phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies,” as agreed at the COP26 Glasgow summit. “It does not break with Glasgow completely, but it doesn’t raise ambition at all,” Norway’s Climate Minister Espen Barth Eide told reporters.Article content
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Key climate justice discussions go down to the wire at COP27Developing countries and especially the ones vulnerable to climate-related disasters are expressing frustration with what they have described as delay tactics from richer nations at the United Nations Climate Conference in Egypt on the key question of an international fund to help poorer countries recover after disasters. The disagreements on key loss and damage negotiations set the stage for a tense overtime weekend. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault (Laurier-Sainte-Marie, Que.), who has attended 20 COP conferences, met with European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans, COP26 president Alok Sharma, and COP27 president Sameh Shoukry on Nov. 17 as part of an attempt to salvage the talks, which were in danger of ending without a clear agreement. Guilbeault said in a written statement that Canada has been “a leading voice on bringing together support for the world’s most vulnerable who are dealing with the loss and damage of climate change,” and his office told The Hill Times that Canada’s focus at COP27 has been on getting loss and damage onto the main agenda for the first time, and on ensuring there are robust discussions. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, left, meeting with COP26 president Alok Sharma, European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans, and COP27 president Sameh Shoukry on Nov. 17 during the final days of the COP27 climate conference in Egypt. Photograph courtesy of Twitter/S_guilbeault But a spokesperson for Guilbeault, speaking on background, also said Canada’s position is that COP27 is only the beginning of a high-level political conversation on loss and damage, and that the target date for a resolution is 2024. This runs contrary to demands from climate-vulnerable nations for something more concrete to be set up at the end of COP27. Guilbeault’s spokesperson also re-affirmed the minister’s Nov. 9 statement that Canada will not accept any loss and damage deal that would make Canadian (and American and European) taxpayers liabl
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Climate talks at COP27 extended through Saturday in attempt to break deadlockDelegates said summit faced collapse unless breakthroughs made on launch of loss and damage fund, calls for phase-down of all fossil fuels, not just coal
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What has Canada achieved at COP27? | CBC NewsIt’s been nearly two weeks since Canada’s team of negotiators arrived in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27, the UN climate change conference. Now, as delegates enter the final stretch of negotiations over various texts and communiques, what has Canada achieved during the conference?
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Ghanian girl cuts through jargon, delivers message at COP27On Friday at COP27, 10-year-old Nakeeyat Dramani Sam spoke during a plenary session with hundreds of delegates, reminding everybody that decisions made at climate talks can directly impact people.
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COP27 goes into overtime as Canada continues to face criticism on oil and gas stanceCanada resisted heavy lobbying from India and others to sign a final agreement committing to a complete phaseout of fossil fuels. Read on.
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COP27 goes into overtime as Canada continues to face criticism on oil and gas stanceCanada resisted heavy lobbying from India and others to sign a final agreement committing to a complete phaseout of fossil fuels. Read on.
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