yes, there has been in a sharm el sheikh, - here in sharm el sheikh? energy related to increasing renewable energy contribution and energy mix worldwide, but also in reliability and security because of what we witnessed during the russian— ukrainian but the summit is not really focusing on the main issues and getting countries to agree on the main issues that heavily impact climate change. as i said, gas emissions, reduction of global warming, said, gas emissions, reduction of globalwarming, pledging said, gas emissions, reduction of global warming, pledging a finance, the green fund which was agreed in paris a few years ago is not fully operational and countries pledging is not really as expected. now talking about a new fund and a new series of discussions and i think what has happened in the global arena in terms of covid—i9 impact and the rush ivan ukrainian war has shifted the global focus on climate change to other issues —— russia— ukraine work. change to other issues -- russia- ukraine work.— change to other issues -- russia- ukraine work. than

this _ sharm el-sheikh. what is your view on that? this was _ sharm el-sheikh. t? this was the first - sharm el-sheikh. what is your view on that? this was the first cop - sharm el-sheikh. what is your view on that? this was the first cop thatj on that? this was the first cop that we were ever able to have a dedicated youth space. i was able to also organise a youth dialogue between 30 young activists in the un secretary general, so i do think this is one of the first cop that young people had a dedicated space and could have their voices heard, no word near enough for what we need, but it was a big step forward. 0n the big target of stopping global warming going above 1.5 degrees by the end of the decade, where do you think we are on that? i the end of the decade, where do you think we are on that?— think we are on that? i think that that will be _ think we are on that? i think that that will be really _ think we are on that? i think that that will be really be _ think we are on that? i think that that will be really be defined - think we are on that? i think th

sharm el-sheikh is just a part of heaven if we want to discuss that. crazy because there is no transparency, no democratic process. to invite all of these people to sharm el-sheikh and let them enjoy their time in such, i would say this is not just green washing, but also a big lie. amy: you are also a major advocate for refugees. can you talk about climate refugees? the same rich nations that are creating conditions that cause people to flee, preventing them from coming to the fossil fuel-emitting nations. muhammad: it is a closed-circuit. the big states are spending more money and too much dollars on arms and we see the military and how it affects the climate. refugees are leaving their home and their countries to find a better place to live, to find someplace that istillivable. the state's spending resources to correct the situation and to fix the crisis, no. the states are spending more and more money o militarization and militarizing the border and border security and that is actually really sad because we see the crisis is kind of affecting us al

climate summit in sharm el sheikh, egypt, this is democracy now! >> what happens in sharm stays in sharm. the same every day continuing all over the country. amy: from the climate summit in sharm el-sheikh to the climate of fear in the rest of egypt. we will speak with the leading egyptian human rights advocate hossam bahgat human rights in egypt, and why civil society did not call for a boycott of the summit. then, we will talk to one of the most prominent climate activists in africa, vanessa nakate from uganda. >> [inaudible] amy: all that and more coming up. ♪ amy: welcome to democracy now, purell democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the u.n. climate summit. the united nations general assembly has approved a resolution calling on russia to pay reparations for its invasion of ukraine and other violations of international law. a little less than half of the general assembly's 193 members voted in favor of the resolution, while 14 voted against it, including russia, iran and china. 73 countries abstai

climate summit in sharm el-sheikh.ominent ukrainian climate activist has been kicked out of the u.n. climate talks after she and others disrupted a russian event inside cop27. during the event, svitlana romanko and others accused russia of committing war crimes in ukraine. >> [indiscernible] you are despicable. you're despicable. amy: that is svitlana romanko and other activists removed from the event and had their cop27 badges suspended. she has since left egypt over fears for her safety following the incident. she's joining us now. she founded the group razom we stand. we last spoke to svitlana romanko in april, shortly after she co-wrote an article with bill mckibben headlined "the ukraine war is a decision point -- banks should stop funding the fossil fuel industry forever." svitlana romanko, welcome back to democracy now! we're going to go to this protest in a minute but a quick thought on our first segment, the joining together of the issue of climate justice and human rights with the longtime imprisonment of ala

industries played in sharm el-sheikh?_ industries played in sharm el-sheikh? stimate is that there were i el-sheikh? the best estimate is that there were about i el-sheikh? the best estimate is that there were about 670 i that there were about 670 lobbyists of one kind or another from the oil lobbyists of one kind or anotherfrom the oil and lobbyists of one kind or another from the oil and gas industry, a big change from recent climate negotiations. they were there mainly badged as other people. some were badged as a country, and some were badged as a non—governmental organisation, so they were a little shy. they didn't want to turn up with their corporate budgets on. —— badges on. but next week the total move to the united arab emirates, how do these companies transition themselves and how do these companies play and how do these companies play a role in sparing the transition? they can't deny the science, they don't deny the science, they don't deny the science, but importantly in most countries in the world, an oil company is nationally owned so how do you h

climate summit, cop27 in sharm el-sheikh. this is his sister sanaa seif speaking from sharm el-sheikh monday. >> i am really scared. it has now been over 24 hours where he stopped water. i read online what happens to the body. for normal body, can endure maximum a week. alaa's body is very frail. i don't know if we are talking about hours or days. i am really, really scared. we will hear sanaa seif*'s full address of the u.n. climate summit after the headlines. in the netherlands, dutch border guards arrested more than 100 climate activists on saturday after over 500 demonstrators spread out across amsterdam's main airport and blocked private jets from taking off. the protesters are demanding a ban on unnecessary short-haul flights and the widespread use of highly polluting private aircraft by wealthy elites. they also want authorities to cancel a planned expansion of amsterdam's airport. in ukraine, russian-appointed officials say they've completed a mass evacuation of kherson ahead of an anticipated ukrainian assault to reca

matt mcgrath in sharm el—sheikh at the start of the cop27 climate conference.t the prime minister rishi sunak knew details of bullying allegations against sir gavin williamson before he gave him a job. 0liver dowden said that sir gavin regretted the texts he sent to a colleague, and that they were not acceptable. but he insisted the prime minister had not seen the details. 0ur political correspondent david wallace lockhart gave me more details. gavin williamson is, of course, former defence secretary, former education secretary, was sacked by borisjohnson but he returned to government when rishi sunak became prime minister. he is now a minister in the cabinet office. the sunday times has obtained texts he sent to a woman, wendy morton, who was then the chief whip, in charge of party management when liz truss was prime minister shortly after the queen died. in it, gavin williamson appears to be upset he is not getting any of the government's allocation to funeral tickets to go to the funeral, he accuses wendy morton of rigging that allocation. in a series of tex

climate summit beginsn sharm el-sheikh. hundreseven arrested -- hundreds have been arrested. >> we were expecting as egypt hosting the cop27, and openness was of amy: president biden will attend next week in sharm el-sheikh. within 50 u.s. lawmakers have called on egypt to release alaa abd el-fattah and other political prisoners. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. representatives of ethiopia's government have reached a deal to permanently halt hostilities with people in northern tigray region. the peace deal announced wednesday capped a week of african union-mediated talks in south africa aimed at bringing an end to a two-year-old war that's sparked one of the world's worst hunitarian crises. former nigerian president olusegun obasanjo led the peace -- the negotiations. >> [inaudible] >> [indiscernible] amy: all parties to the tigray war have been accused of war crimes. the peace talks did not include eritrea, whose forces joined ethiopia's as

in sharm el sheikh, delegates at the u.n. climate conference agreed on sunday to establish a landmark loss and damage fund to help the global south deal with the worst effects of the climate catastrophe, largely caused by rich countries. the u.s., historically the world's worst polluter, was the last major holdout on the idea bere finally agreeing to the fund on saturday. but it's unclear how these commitments will be enforced. in the u.s such fus would need to appropriated by a now-split congss. meanwhile, activists, the u.n., and vulnerable nations have condemned the lack of action on lowering emissions in order to reach the goal of keeping global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels. this is alok sharma, president of last year's cop26, speaking sunday. >> mission speaking before 2025. clear follow-through on the phasedown of coal, not in this text. clear commitment to phase out all fossil fuels, not in this text. and the energy text weakened in the final minutes. friends, i set in glasgow

it is incremental progress, and after sharm el-sheikh, we have to be realistic. is a bad moment for the world if we are bold about it moving together, but we have a few moments, and c.o.p. can surprise us. samantha: yeah, a few hours left. a lot of talk about rich countries helping the poor. lots of rich countries say, well, we are still in the development stage, and other countries like the u.s. and u.k. have benefited from many many decades, post our industrial revolution, when they are still going through there's. >> look, if we cannot find a central way in which there is more ability to invest and contribute financially, but those actually, historically speaking, have a greater role in the way that we got ourselves to the problem we have today, than the simple answer is, everybody is a ler, because climate change will happen, and it will happen to everyone, whether you are in florida or pakistan or the horn of africa right now, where whave seen catastrophic flooding in just six hours to 10 hours, damages, 10 billion, 20 billion, 30 billion euros. this is the

climate summit in sharm el sheikh, egypt.dreds of people, including climate activists, indigenous peoples, workers, human rights activists, and environmental defenders, gathered today for the people's plenary at cop27. just before we began this broadcast. they signed on to a people's declaration for climate justice that includes demands for the decolonization of economies and societies, the repaying of climate debt, and the defense of 1.5 degrees celsius by reducing emissions to zero by 2030. the statement ends with a call for the release of the imprisoned egyptian technologist, writer, and activist alaa abdel fattah and all other prisoners of conscience. after the plenary ended, hundreds marched outside the plenary hall. i am amy goodman. we are outside the u.n. cup plenary. we just came from the people's plenary were hundreds gathered to call for justice that signed off on a statement, the foreign minister egypt just passed by. part of the statement is calling for freedom for the political prisoner alaa abdel-fattah and oth

amy: i spoke to him friday in sharm el-sheikh, egypt, about the assessment of this summit this year. accomplished and what hadn't. >> we came to sharm el-sheikh to demand action for the interests of those most impacted by the climate crisis. and we hope to bring justice and accountability into the heart of these talks by way of establishing a fund, a fund for loss and damage. and when we talk about loss and damage, it is because we live in an era where we have realized the limits to being able to adapt to climate change. what's happening to the negotiations, there -- amy: what do you mean exactly by "loss and damage"? >> so, when we talk about climate change, there is a notion of being able to adapt, to adjust, so that you don't get impacted so severely. but when you talk about not being able to do that, meaning you lose lives, you lose cultures, you lose noneconomic and economic losses and damage, that is inflicted on so many communities, we're talking about an entirely different proposition here now. communities can no longer adapt. they can no longer adjust or they have no means t

good morning from sharm el _ commitments going forward? (emf. morning from sharm el sheikh.erm we are going to see growth in the use of oil, gas and coal. we are seeing that. in the long run i think the path to transition is not going to change, and let's keepin not going to change, and let's keep in mind that although we are seeing a growth in coal around the world, that is at the expense of gas to some extent because of lack of availability of gas from russia. there will be emissions increase again in the short term, but in the long term the direction of travel is clear. we are going to decarbonise, reduce emissions. but energy security has — reduce emissions. but energy security has become - reduce emissions. but energy security has become the - security has become the number—one priority, and can understand why in the current environment that we are in. so in terms of our move to renewables, in terms of investment in that, as governments in europe, where are we at? i governments in europe, where are we at?— are we at? i think what happened _ are we at? i think what happe

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in the egyptian sharm el-sheikh, the climate summit started, he represents. esentatives of dank european states rushed to warm sunny egypt. well, where else to fight against global warming, as in november and sharm el sheikh. the president of ukraine, commenting on the beginning of the summit in a video message , said that the participants need to force russia into real ones. according to him, peace talks seem to have failed even with russian missiles, although would not for a long time clear the brain of the universal from american illegal drugs. i wonder by what logic the organizers of the climate summit decided to give the floor to zelensky, because his last name is consonant with the word green. at this pace , vova will soon be talking about russian aggression at congress gynecologists and meetings of anonymous alcoholics. whoever seriously considers the climate agenda should also seriously consider the issue of immediately stopping russian aggression and restoring our territorial integrity and forcing russia to real peace talks about russian aggression. e

that's not very far good _ morning from sharm el-sheikh in morning from sharm el—sheikh in egypt ando net carbon by 2050, 2050 was a long that we have published amongst the few detailed road maps how and the first milestone indeed is to along by 2025. when we had a look that along with the three scopes, because it is a full road map, we have the most of our carbon emissions are in the upstream part, we are and agro —based company and as you say we have a lot with agriculture, farming etc. so the first thing we did is of course building to see how we can help this transition to lower the carbon footprint, and this goes through taking care of soil health, so we have a lot of activities around soil health, engaging with farmers, you know, sharing with them best practices, how to move from the current system, which has worked for years. the current food system has delivered four years, but if we continue the same way, only talking about yield and productivity, of course that is not going to deliver for the coming so many years. so to make it sustainable, we found the sweet spot between n

climate summit in sharm el sheikh and flew into cairo. we're in cairo, egypt, in the apartment of laila soueif. she is the mother of alaa abd el-fattah who is imprisoned in egypt for most of the last decade. we are joined right now by laila soueif, a math professor at cairo university, and her daughter sanaa seif. they just recently visited alaa in prison. they had not seen them for a number of weeks. he has just finished a seven-month hunger fast. the last days of that fast he stopped drinking water during cop is based seven here in sharm el-sheikh, -- cop27, in sharm el-sheikh, not far from here. i wanted to start asking you both about your visit. you came out of it shaken seeing alaa for the first time in quite some time, sitting behind glass as he spoke to you through -- faintly through a phone. talk about what he told you. >> behind glass, it was disappointing. alaa looked more thin and weak. the last time i saw him was in october. it had been er three weeks. he looked even more frail, even more diminished. i thought he looked shorter

bbc arabic�*s correspondent sally nabil spoke to me from the sharm el—sheikh conference centre.has recognised the importance of providing financial assistance from developed countries to developing nations, to try and help them, notjust contain the potential damage in the years and decades to come, resulting from climate change, but also to try and mitigate the damage that has resulted from this man—made disaster over the past few years and decades. a couple of years ago, developed nations should have provided developing countries with $100 billion for this purpose, but that deadline has been missed, and this is why this year, they are trying to reiterate the importance of providing logistic and financial support. there has been a lot of debate, a lot of controversy about the freedom of speech here, the potential restrictions that might be imposed by the egyptian government on human rights advocates and activists, who usually protest on the sidelines of every cop. according to human rights activists we have been talking to inside and outside this country, they are not planning a

well those talks in egypt are still going on and i caught up withjustin in sharm el—sheikh earlier to wish i could give you a clear answer on that. we thought that the deal that seems to have been done on loss and damage would break the logjam of these negotiations and open up the opportunity for stronger language and cutting emissions, more ambition for driving down emissions in the future, tackling climate change itself. that does not seem to have materialised yet here in egypt. earlier on people were saying that various nations were introducing issues that were very close to their heart weren't necessarily important to the negotiations themselves. a while back, we heard about that could be reopening the loss and damage talks. that seems to have gone away now. we are still in a position, you probably did this when you were in glasgow, as people leave the room, we ask how it is going. the norwegian environment minister, the new zealand minister, whoever, we ask them how it is going. they now say that this is beginning to look like it is going to take a really long time. it is midnigh

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chris mason, bbc news, in sharm el—sheikh. ention some good news earlier. , ., , �* , earlier. tell us more? yes, let's focus on — earlier. tell us more? yes, let's focus on the _ earlier. tell us more? yes, let's focus on the good _ earlier. tell us more? yes, let's focus on the good news. - earlier. tell us more? yes, let's focus on the good news. the - earlier. tell us more? yes, let's i focus on the good news. the most positive development was the decision to include loss and damage for the first time in these talks. loss and damage is pretty much what it says on the tin. it's about the loss and damage climate change is currently causing. so developing countries are often experiencing more extreme weather events associated with climate change. think floods, storms, droughts, and they are often less able to cope with them. so they have been saying for a long time that they would like the rich world to help them out with this loss and damage. the rich world, which caused climate change, burning the fossil fuels that made it r

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el—sheikh. let's discuss in particular for the next couple of minutes the impact on smaller island nations. jeremy raguian is from the alliance of small island states — and is in sharm alliance of small island states was set up in 1990 to consolidate the voices of small island developing states and to address global warming. hello and good afternoon to you. first, just a reminder, i think, would be really useful for first, just a reminder, i think, would be really usefulfor our viewers, of the sheer impact of climate change on the states that you represent, because we are talking very often about low—lying islands which by definition are more vulnerable, aren't they? yes. islands which by definition are more vulnerable, aren't they?— vulnerable, aren't they? yes, i ha en vulnerable, aren't they? yes, i happen to _ vulnerable, aren't they? yes, i happen to be _ vulnerable, aren't they? yes, i happen to be from _ vulnerable, aren't they? yes, i happen to be from the - vulnerable, aren't they? yes, i i happen to be from the seychelles thatis happen to be from the seychelles that is part of the alliance, i have friends and fellows from maldives and other places that are

chris mason, bbc news, in sharm el—sheikh. an take stock at the end of this day of talks. progress since last year they say is woefully inadequate. is there any sign there that this year they will lay better foundations? i that this year they will lay better foundations?— that this year they will lay better foundations? ithink, look, ithink glasaow foundations? ithink, look, ithink glasgow did _ foundations? ithink, look, ithink glasgow did lay — foundations? ithink, look, ithink glasgow did lay good _ foundations? ithink, look, ithink| glasgow did lay good foundations. what glasgow called forth, if you like, what is ambition, promises of action. the disappointment here in egypt is that those promises have not been fulfilled. the egyptians say their agenda is implementation. it is getting countries to come good on the promises they have made. glasgow has yet to deliver, if you like, and the question is, can egypt get countries to do that. we have emphasised, this is a huge challenge. there is great anxiety here about whether it

our environment correspondent is in sharm el-sheikh. >> what we call here loss and damage has becomene of the main flashpoints of comp 27 and that refers to a funding mechanism meant to compensate developing countries for climate related disasters they cannot avoid. they simply cannot adapt to. the treaty question is who should pay for that? according to developing nations, it should be the last. rich countries should be the ones paying for climate related losses. they're the ones who have contributed the most to the climate crisis in the first place. on the other hand you have developed countries. they argue this should all be something we move forward with. loss and damage mechanism as they fear it could set a precedent and it will be exposed with a string of claims from other countries and they would be held accountable for climate related disasters and climate change. countries that have been making these claims, developing countries in general. we have heard from the senegalese president saying africa is responsible for 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions and payroll the front

he was in sharm el—sheikh, he issue. he was in sharm el—sheikh, he is at that summit.rogress from the last cop in glascow has been woeful, that is the word that was used up let's discuss all of this and what could possibly be achieved. he is from the energy and climate intelligence unit. well we can speak now to gareth redmond—king. i thought it was really interesting listening to a tiny is at the start of the day. was he accurate to point out everything he did, do you think? absolutely. what he said we have known for very long time. we have known for very long time. we have known the choice that's facing humanity is to act this or to face ever worsening climate impacts and eventually parts of the planet becoming unlivable. we've known for a long time. it comes to exact become starker this year because we're seeing much worse climate impacts this year. we saw a third of pakistan under water. we see record temperatures in almost all parts of the world, including in the uk. the other reason it is become starker this year is the world to become a much more dangerous place

-sponsored event take place into sharm el sheikh, egypt.here are heads of states and climate activists registered for the event. the state of goal to deliver action on the climate emergency. david moscow is the director of international climate initiatives at the world resources institute. he joins us from sharm el sheikh in egypt, host city of this year's climate conference. so good to have you with us. egyptian hosts have their work cut out for them. the world's two major polluters, the u.s. and china, they're not talking to each other at the moment, they've suspended climate negotiations, china's leader xi is not expected to attend the cop27. india may not go. is cop still the best form to tackle the climate crisis? >> well, this year there will still be a number of leaders. i should say 195 countries other than the u.s. and china will be here and that's the strength of this event. it brings together all of the countries from around the world. there will be leaders from many countries here tomorrow and the next day, talking about the urg

she also gave a talk to world leaders when she was in sharm el—sheikh.s — and other youth organisation's — goals at this summit. youth climate activists have really been pushing for the creation of the beginning of copper, and i think that this drop language is very encouraging, so i do hope to see it in the final text that these countries, it to creating a loss and damage fund, particularly because countries like the us really have an obligation to foreign nations to make sure we are providing adequate finance. when i spoke to a former president of the maldives a couple of weeks ago about this summit, he was telling me about the work that young activists are doing in the maldives and how they have been encouraged to make their voices heard, but he felt that those voices weren't fully being heard at cop. what is your view on that? well, this was the first cop that we were ever able to have a dedicated youth space at the youth and children we were also able to organise the youth dialogue between the activists and the secretary—general, so i do think this

manly hand for a minute and a half, and this was on tuesday at the climate summit in egyptian sharm el-sheikhremembers the european countries of france germany sweden spain denmark and others at the beginning of the nineteenth year supported the impostor juan guido, who declared himself the head of state of venezuela and even recognized him as interim president. we in russia immediately considered it real a disgrace for europe and the macron is fine. a year later, self-proclaim guaido. in the name of democracy, macron hosted at the elysee palace and it was also hot. i shook hands with him, as now, with nicolas, whose maduro macron had already called the president. now the macron is kindly looking into the eyes of the big venezuelan and suggesting we talk a little longer, to do bilateral work, but listen, what do hydrocarbons do to people on the eve of winter. it would seem that france, whose nuclear power plants have always had almost the cheapest in europe, but green and the devil beguiled their french in the calculation of the sun and wind, the reactors did not repair the equipment, it lite

climate summit in sharm el sheikh, egypt.turday, hundreds of protesters marched inside the conference venue calling on wealthy nations to pay reparations for their role in causing the climate crisis. the united states is the largest historical emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. on friday, president biden attended the climate talks in egypt and pledged to spend $11 billion annually on international climate aid. pres. biden: to do our part to pervert the climate hell that the u.n. secretary general so passionately warned about earlier this week. we are not ignoring harbingers that are right here. it is true, so many disasters, climate crises are hitting those countries artist and communities that have the fewest resources to respond and recover. that is why, last year, i committed to work with our congress, quadruple u.s. support for climate finance, provide $11 billion annually by 2024, including $3 billion for adaption. amy: president biden was briefly disrupted by a group of youth and indigenous activists from the united s

the climate conference cop27 reached an agreement of sorts at sharm el—sheikh, setting up, among othertries can help poorer ones which are seriously affected by the violent weather events which are becoming more and more frequent. should we breathe a sigh of relief? no. the un secretary—general antonio guterres said our planet remains in the emergency room. mary robinson, head of the elders group and a former president of ireland, was even more blunt. the world still stands on the brink of climate catastrophe, she said. all this happened at a time when experts say the population of our world hasjust reached eight billion. how much should we be worrying about this as well? i turned to steph hegarty, the bbc population correspondent. the past billion, it's been mostly china and india, so it's really come from asia, then various countries in africa, but the next billion is predicted to come from only eight countries. one of them is india, because it will keep growing even though fertility levels have come down in india. but where we're going to see huge growth and we're already seeing rap

kamala ficus there in sharm el sheikh, waiting for the, president he joins us live. ago was -- and biden turned up empty-handed, received a lot of criticism for, that not this time. >> yeah, he walked into that summit in scotland, just as his proposed climate problem is totally falling apart. republicans opposed, it there were key democrats that work holdouts. and it is interesting how different a year has made, eventually the bill passed, it was sort of a slow for the, president but it did include 370 billion dollars, to combat climate change. that was the largest investment in american history, and the president certainly does feel like he's entering this conference, now a year later, having put his money where his mouth is, when it comes to goading other nations, into making their own significantly ambitious climate pledges. why don't officials say that he does plan to try to leverage those commitments, when he speaks later today in sharm el-sheikh, to try to tell leaders that now is a time for their own countries to step up, for their own countries to make a very

climate summit, cop 27 is entering its final week in sharm el-sheikh, egypt.the top of the agenda, figuring out who pays for the effects of climate change. developing nations want major industrialized countries to foot the bill as they bear the brunt of manmade climate change. this year's conference is also being held in the shadow of the host country's controversial human rights record. egypt has restricted protests during the conference, and human rights groups have criticized president abdel-fattah el-sisi for his continued imprisonment of activist allah abdel fatt. abdel fattah was a leader of the country's 2011 revolution, and he has been on a months-long hunger strike. joining us now from egypt is sarah kaplan, climate reporter for "the washington post." i want to pick up on that last point about human rights. what is the status right now of all abdel fatah, who's in prison, and what can you tell us about the wider presence of protesters at this summit? sarah: yeah. he had been on a hunger strike. and at the start of the cop conference, he actually stopp

shejoins us now from sharm el—sheikh. thank you for being on the programme.ake in the un secretary—general antonio guterres saying there is complacency, there is too much foot dragging. what are your hopes for what could be achieved this week? i your hopes for what could be achieved this week?- your hopes for what could be achieved this week? i think it will be incremental— achieved this week? i think it will be incremental progress, not our big breakthrough. you heard a lot sharma saint countries have a lot on their plate this year. we spent most of the weekend negotiating the agenda, agreeing what would be negotiated and it was a very tense. on one side you had countries like antigua and barbuda representing small island states and a minister from pakistan saying we have to agree a financial mechanism for financial loss and damage to countries that suffered the effects that the egyptian hosts, the president of cop27 had to read it a caveat sink we would discuss this but it had to be about cooperation, it would not be about compensation and liability, and th

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joining us now from sharm el sheikh equipment, kelly cobiella.ct to hear from the president today? >> reporter: jose, you'll hear a few things from the president. first of all, the president will try to convince the delegates at cop27 the u.s. is serious and taking real action when it comes to climate change and he'll point to the inflation reduction act for example as proof of that because of those tax incentives, which are meant to encourage companies in the united states to invest in clean energy. he'll also talk about a new epa rule meant to toughen, tighten restrictions on methane gas emissions in the united states. it traps 80% of heat so rederchers, scientists say it's really crucial to tighten the amount of methane being released into the atmosphere to bring down the global temperature and bringing down temperature rises. he'll also talk about more funding for developing countries to adapt to climate change but what you're hearing a lot here from developing countries is a demand for the u.s. to commit to a compensation fund. so president

it's 7am in singapore, and 1am in egypt — where the cop27 climate summit has started in sharm el—sheikhst of warnings from the head of the united nations. antonio guterres said the world was on the "highway to climate hell" with no sign of slowing down, and that humanity needed to "co—operate or perish". last year's climate conference in glasgow agreed a number of pledges on cutting emissions, but the un says progress on these has been "woefully inadequate". our climate editorjustin rowlatt is at the summit in egypt and sent this report. in the egyptian desert, world leaders have been gathering to try and tackle the climate challenge, among them the british prime minister rishi sunak, arriving in egypt for what are expected to be some of the most difficult discussions in the three—decade history of these climate summits. global temperatures keep rising, and our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible. still on the accelerator. mr sunak said acting on climate also makes economic sense. putin's abhorrent war in ukraine and rising energy prices a

was made by the secretary general of the united nations, antonio guterres, at today's summit in sharm el-sheikhccording to him, humanity is facing a turning point, and therefore it is extremely important to conclude something like a climate solidarity pact, according to this document, countries should undertake to make maximum efforts to comply with the agreement on the reduction of harmful emissions into the atmosphere well, the richer countries of the world should help the less wealthy to switch to renewable energy sources as soon as possible, because according to mr. general secretary antonio hotelier, the global temperature will continue to rise and soon climate chaos may become irreversible , how much would you like it not to happen climatic chaos, well, and finally in dubai, and this is the united arab emirates, a skyscraper was on fire, so far there is no information about whether there are any victims, it is known that the fire started around half past three at night, the fire spread very quickly through the building, and within a few minutes, every floor of the skyscraper was on fire.