What are the key outcomes of Cop27 climate summit?

From loss and damage to 1.5C goal and World Bank reform, the takeaways from Sharm el-Sheikh

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Cop27 agrees historic ‘loss and damage’ fund for climate impact in developing countries

Deal is hailed as potential turning point that acknowledges vast inequities of climate crisis

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‘We can do the impossible’: how key players reacted to end of Cop27 climate summit

World leaders, diplomats and activists respond to signing of ‘historic’ deal as climate talks wrap up

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Canadian Banks Increased Fossil Investment in 2021, Report Card Shows

Canada’s biggest banks receive letter grades of B- to D, and all show increases in their fossil fuel lending and underwriting between 2020 and 2021, in the latest report card issued last week by Investors for Paris Compliance (IPC).

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‘We need a breakthrough deal on biodiversity’: can Montreal summit deliver for nature?

In 201o, politicians pledged to halt devastation of Earth’s wildlife. Since then, no progress has been made. And despite glimmers of hope, prospects look grim for next month’s top-level meeting in Canada

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Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction

The story of the damage done to the world’s biodiversity is a tale of decline spanning thousands of years. Can the world seize its chance to change the narrative?

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Lost and found: noisy, tame and very active, Argentina delights in giant otter’s return

Decades after the world’s biggest otter disappeared from the country, a kayaking trip revealed a lone male swimming in the Bermejo River

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Just Stop Oil expected to begin two weeks of action in London from Monday

Scotland Yard believes environmental activist group will launch two weeks of ‘disruption’ in the capital before Christmas

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Fair Cop27? Where did Peter Dutton’s figure of $2tn for climate damage fund come from?

Meanwhile, BP’s CEO was in town spruiking the energy giant’s climate credentials, as its oil output increases from last year

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Gordon Brown says China must pay into climate fund for poor countries

Former prime minister says US and Europe will pay biggest share of loss and damage fund, but China must too

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Rich nations have promised to pay for the climate crisis – but will they?

For too long pledges have gone unmet, so at Cop28 new solutions need to be explored

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Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all

Never mind the yuck factor: precision fermentation could produce new staple foods, and end our reliance on farming

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Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic?

The climate emergency is prompting some scientists to suggest extreme measures. But whether you call it geoengineering or biomimicry, others feel interfering with nature will have too high a cost

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Alok Sharma backs bid to lift ban on onshore windfarms in England

Tory MP becomes latest member of party to get behind push to drop moratorium with reports Michael Gove also supports move

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Over 20,000 died in western Europe’s summer heatwaves, figures show

This year’s temperatures would have been virtually impossible without climate crisis, scientists say

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COP27 Tackled The Consequences Of Climate Change, But Not The Cause—Fossil Fuels

The agreement to establish a Loss and Damage Fund at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El–Sheikh, Egypt, is a significant breakth

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Greenwashing Governments and Oil Companies Turned COP27 Into a Climate Disaster

The international climate talks in Egypt — the 27th Conference of Parties to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP27 — have become a dystopian nightmare: Oil companies, dictators and greenwashers captured the process more effectively than ever.

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How to Pay for Climate Justice When Polluters Have All the Money

The climate summit just concluding in Egypt ran hard into one of the world’s greatest structural problems: most of the money is in the Global North, but most of the need is in the Global South.

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Everything is dead’: Animal carcasses litter Kenyan landscape as megadrought and climate change collide

Overgrazing and a historic drought worsened by the climate crisis has decimated wildlife, leaving millions of people on the brink of famine in the Horn of Africa As the Horn of Afr

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