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Today in Focus

Cop27: another blow to 1.5C?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

At Cop27 in Egypt, negotiations ran 40 hours past the Friday night deadline. Country delegates were able to agree a historic deal on loss and damage, but less progress was made on global fossil fuel emission targets. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is the Guardian.

0:09.0

Today, how the COP27 negotiations nearly fell apart

0:14.0

and what deal they've left us with.

0:16.0

The past two weeks here, you haven't really seen any tourists,

0:23.0

so the pools in the hotels have been deserted.

0:26.0

The streets have been pretty empty because everyone here has been at the COP,

0:31.0

45,000 people attended this COP,

0:35.0

and from the time we've been here,

0:39.0

we've been here for the past two weeks,

0:43.0

and from morning until night,

0:47.0

they have been stuck in windowless rooms,

0:50.0

all working every single day, 24 hours a day,

0:54.0

in many cases, on this agreement that we finally got.

0:58.0

At COP27, the world's leaders came together to make a pact

1:03.0

that they would take actions, ambitious,

1:06.0

often difficult ones, to abate the climate crisis.

1:10.0

In those meeting rooms in Charmel-Shake in Egypt,

1:14.0

the stakes were high, especially for leaders from developing countries

1:19.0

who were seeing every day how this crisis is destroying lives and land,

1:24.0

and who were looking for more financial support.

1:32.0

The Guardian's Environment Editor, Fiona Harvey, was there and listening.

1:37.0

Pakistan, in particular, made an enormously important,

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