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Cop27: has there been any progress in Sharm el-Sheikh?

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The Guardian

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4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Cop27 got off to a difficult start last week. Attendees struggled with a lack of food and drink, civil society group events were curtailed, and more than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists hit the conference halls – more than the delegations of many of the most vulnerable countries combined. As we head into the second week, Madeleine Finlay hears from biodiversity reporter Patrick Greenfield about what it’s been like in Sharm el-Sheikh, and from environment editor Fiona Harvey about what’s happened so far and whether much progress is likely to be made in the final days of negotiations. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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dot com slash energy specialist to find out more We're now over halfway through the COP27 UN Climate Summit in Egypt, where governments, businesses and activists have gathered to try and

0:56.8

save the planet from more devastating heating.

1:01.4

Guardian reporters and editors have been on the ground closely watching what's been happening.

1:07.0

So today we're catching up with them to hear about progress so far and what we can expect as talks head towards their climax at the end of this week.

1:19.0

Will we get any closer to preventing climate catastrophe?

1:22.0

We're about to find out.

1:25.0

From the Guardian, I'm Madeline Finley, and this is Science Weekly. Good morning from Shamel Shake. It is a warm day. There's beautiful mountains in the background

1:46.0

that go down to the sea which is full of incredible coral reefs and you can see

1:51.7

Saudi Arabia in the background from some of the coastline

1:55.1

but inside the blue zone which is the main part of the cop where negotiations are

2:01.6

taking place you can't really see a lot of that.

2:04.0

That's friend of the podcast Patrick Greenfield,

2:08.0

Biodiversity and Environment Reporter who like others at COP27

2:12.0

has been somewhat struggling with the conditions in Charmel-Shake.

2:17.0

Last week it seemed like the meeting maybe took organizers slightly by surprise in terms of food and

2:23.8

drink so it's been pretty tough to get enough to eat definitely water was a

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