Surveillance, greenwashing and a hunger strike: welcome to Egypt’s Cop27
Can the authoritarian state, currently building a water-consuming desert capital, host a summit that achieves real change?
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Walton Webson: For us, climate change is life and death
The chair of the Alliance of Small Island States on the climate finance needs of some of the world’s smallest…
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Cop27 shows us that governments have short memories
The UK has failed time after time to live up to the climate pledges it made at Cop26.
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Rishi Sunak’s vision for “Global Britain” is empty
What should we make of a Brexiteer who studied stateside and tried to avoid Cop27?
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Why Cop27 has a confidence problem
This year’s UN climate conference could be the most challenging yet.
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Could the rich stop climate change?
The clean energy transition will not come cheap, but billionaires could do much more to finance this change.
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Greta Thunberg on why Cop27 is a “scam”
The activist calls out politicians who use the UN climate process for their own ends.
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Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have more in common than they would like to admit
Both have cast themselves as the antidote to the chaotic leaderships of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
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Could Rishi Sunak U-turn on Cop27?
The Prime Minister may now conclude that the political risks of not attending the climate conference are too great.
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On the climate crisis, to delay is to deny
Getting to net zero is not an aspiration – it’s a necessity.
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The planet and our economy need strong UK leadership at Cop27
Rishi Sunak is missing an opportunity to show he means business on the climate.
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Alok Sharma: I can still represent the UK at Cop27
The Cop26 president will still negotiate on the government’s behalf, despite the gap between its policies and promises on climate.
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We’re turning our climate into a weapon of mass destruction
Cities must demand an end to fossil fuel exploration, investment and subsidies.
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“I haven’t met a politician ready to do what it takes”: Greta Thunberg and Björk in conversation
The world’s leading voice for climate action and its most original singer-songwriter discuss greenwashing, fame, Cop27, music and the matriarchy.
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Why King Charles must speak at Cop27
In making the monarchy part of her ideological battleground, Liz Truss is exposing her own shaky constitutional position.
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Why Liz Truss would do well to listen to the IEA
Global collaboration and 100 per cent focus on net zero are vital, warns a new report.
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Pascal Lamy on the climate crisis: “We have to go way back to find a global picture as depressing as today”
Cop27 in Egypt must focus on bespoke solutions for the host continent, says the former WTO head.
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Why the UN Security Council can’t keep ignoring climate-driven conflict
Drought and famine further jeopardise peace in fragile regions. The UN needs to recognise this threat before Cop27.
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Does anyone actually care about Cop27?
Negotiators are meeting in Bonn to drum up momentum for the summit in Egypt, but international tensions won’t help climate…
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Paris – the beginning not the end of the road
Crucial climate change negotiations will take place in Paris on 30 November. Some commentators say it’s the final chance for…
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