Despair, elation, confusion: Climate talks go to wire

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — COP27 host Egypt scrambled to salvage UN climate talks Saturday with crunch negotiations hanging on tussles over driving forward action to fight global warming in a world facing an onslaught of deadly weather extremes.

The two-week talks, already a day into overtime, have whiplashed between fears the process could collapse, to hopes of a major breakthrough on “loss and damage” funding for climate-vulnerable nations.

With delegates from nearly 200 countries still at loggerheads as talks dragged passed midnight, delegates told AFP that the remaining issues focused on how to speed the greening of the global economy, including a controversial pledge to mo…

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