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Europe could ban miniature hotel toiletries as part of new plastic waste rules

Measures focus on unnecessary packaging, with carbon neutrality by 2050 the primary aim

The Independent UK

A New Climate Change Loss and Damage Fund Established at U.N. Climate Change Conference

Poor countries expecting a climate change reparations bonanza will likely be disappointed.

Reason

A deal on loss and damage, but a blow to 1.5C – what will be Cop27’s legacy?

Anger at western hypocrisy heated to boiling point in Sharm el-Sheikh, but after intense talks the impasse was finally broken

The Guardian - UK

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COP27: Landmark ‘loss and damage’ fund for at risk states agreed

‘In the end we delivered. We listened to the calls of anguish and despair,’ Sameh Shoukry the Egyptian foreign minister and president of the summit said

Evening Standard

COP27 poised for deal after breakthrough on climate payments

The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which had appeared close to collapse on Saturday morning, were poised for a last-minute deal after progress on a landmark agreement to pay poorer countries for harm caused by global warming.

Tribune News Service

COP27 edges toward deal after progress on climate payments

The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which had appeared close to collapse on Saturday morning, edged toward a last-minute deal after progress on a landmark agreement to pay poorer countries for harm caused by global warming.

Tribune News Service

Climate fund breakthrough offers ‘hope’

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Host Egypt scrambled to salvage the UN climate talks on Saturday with the European Union signalling a breakthrough over the contentious issue of “loss and damage” funding for climate-vulnerable nations.

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Cop27 talks in disarray with 1.5C goal at risk, campaigners warn

Countries urged to make progress as ‘untransparent, unpredictable and chaotic’ talks in danger of collapse

The Guardian - UK

Cop27: crunch climate talks teeter on the edge

UN climate talks were thrown into disarray Saturday as the EU rejected a proposal by host country Egypt for lacking ambition on emissions cuts and warned it would rather leave with no deal than a bad one. But Egypt's Foreign Minister said he was hoping for a breakthrough and called…

Radio France Internationale

EU president says Cop27 deal is ‘small step towards climate justice’ but warns much more to be done – as it happened

Despite breakthrough on fund for developing nations, Ursula von der Leyen says Cop27 has not delivered on commitment to phase down fossil fuels

The Guardian - UK

Cop27 talks continue over EU climate loss and damage fund proposal

Last-ditch plan for providing cash to countries suffering climate-related disaster brings overtime wranglingCop27 live – latest news updates

The Guardian - UK

Cop27: is it right to talk of ‘reparations’?

Negotiations are centred on ‘loss and damages’ – but some think that language does not fully account for climate debt

The Guardian - UK

EU reversal of stance on loss and damage turns tables on China at Cop27

China is responsible for more cumulative emissions than any country other than the US

The Guardian - UK

Cop27 extended as EU climate damage proposal piles pressure on China

On what should have been the final day of Cop27 climate talks in Egypt, an EU proposal to break a deadlock on financial help for poor nations ravaged by climate change has piled pressure on big-polluting developing countries such as China to pitch in. The talks have been extended into…

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The Independent UK

Crunch time for UN climate talks as Friday deadline looms

Global climate talks are headed to crunch time on the final scheduled day of negotiations

The Independent UK

The Latest | UN Climate Summit

EU climate chief Frans Timmermans said Friday that a proposal made by the bloc on funding for loss and damage and mitigation is “a final offer” that seeks to “find a compromise” between nations as negotiators try to find a way forward at the U.N. climate talks in Egypt

The Guardian - UK

Cop27: EU agrees to loss and damage fund to help poor countries amid climate disasters

Change in stance puts spotlight on US and China, which have both objected to fund

Reuters

EU agrees to climate damage fund, energizing bogged-down COP27 talks

Climate negotiators on Friday were mulling a European Union proposal aimed at resolving an impasse over financing for countries hit by climate-fuelled disasters and pushing the U.N. climate summit in Egypt closer to a final deal.

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Reuters

EU says COP27 deal needs 'tremendous amount of work'

A tremendous amount of work is needed to turn a draft of a COP27 deal into something the nearly 200 countries at the climate summit can agree on, the European Union's Climate Policy Chief told Reuters on Thursday.

Reuters

COP27 negotiators face long and difficult journey - EU's Timmermans

Negotiators at the COP27 summit in Egypt face a difficult task over the coming days, European Union climate policy chief Frans Timmermans said on Thursday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US, China Climate Envoys Meet at COP27 Summit in Egypt

US climate envoy John Kerry met Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate negotiations in Egypt in a further hint of improving relations between the world's top two polluters, seen as vital for substantial progress against global warming. The meeting between Kerry and China's top climate official…

Reuters

EU supports COP27 call to phase down all fossil fuels

The European Union supports a call by India to phase down fossil fuel use as part of a COP27 deal, the bloc's climate policy chief Frans Timmermans said on Tuesday, provided it does not weaken previous agreements on reducing the use of coal.

Reuters

EU is ready to update climate pledges - Timmermans

The European Union is ready to update its emissions-cutting target, climate policy chief Frans Timmermans told the COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday, pointing to recently agreed EU policies to cut emissions faster than planned.

The Guardian - UK

Money talks: why climate finance at Cop27 is key to beating global heating

Funding urgently needed to cope with climate disasters – and to prevent distrust crashing UN negotiations

The Guardian - UK

Who’s who at Cop27: the leaders who hold the world’s future in their hands

A look at who will – and who may not – be at the Sharm el-Sheikh climate summit this month

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