27 times. The United Nations has gathered the world,

capital T, capital W together 27 times to try to figure out what to do about climate change.

In a good year, things do get done at the climate change conference of the parties or COP.

But as we close out 2022, one thing we can say for certain, it has not been a particularly good year.

Climate change isn't the only issue on everyone's mind. We're facing an era of global inflation,

conflict, really high energy prices, and possibly going into a recession.

So a lot of people were really not just focused on climate change at the meeting,

and it was really hard to get everybody focused on this one thing at one time.

So what got done?

The answer is not nothing.

Coming up on today explained, low expectations, but mixed results.

It's today explained, I'm Noelle King, representatives from almost 200 countries turned up in Egypt for the UN's 27th worldwide meeting on climate change.

Now that in itself is an achievement, consider. Ukraine and Russia fighting a devastating war.

They each sent representatives to this meeting.

Although every single country present refused to go to Russia's roundtable discussions.

Oh, Umar or Fawn is a science reporter at Fox, and he was at two previous COP, 25 and 26.

This year, he monitored from home.

The main agenda item at this COP was this idea of compensating poorer countries facing the effects of climate change now.

And this is under a provision known as loss in damage.

That's developed nations finding ways to compensate and assist developing nations following decades of environmental damage.

This has been something that's been extraordinarily contentious in previous COP's and has been punted on for years.

Finally, they got in principle an agreement to actually create a fund that would help countries facing the effects of climate change now pay for some of the damages.

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