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Latest news and updates on the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), which is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, between November 6 and November 18, 2022.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left) with Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18. Brazil, which holds the rotating Brics presidency in 2025, announced on January 6 that Indonesia had become a full member of the bloc. Photo: AFP/Brazilian presidency
Asean

Opinion | Why Southeast Asia’s participation in Brics matters

With Indonesia joining the grouping and Malaysia and Thailand as partner countries, Brics has acquired not just mineral-rich members but also key Asean voices.

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Climate change

The View | Is it time for ‘developing’ China to start funding UN climate aid?

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Science

Cop28: China, India drove the world’s global emission growth, study finds

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Climate change

Opinion | Climate change: water scarcity is fuelling new crises across Asia

Attendees at COP27 failed to prioritise the urgent climate adaptation and mitigation policies needed to promote water security worldwide. Water scarcity must be high on the agenda at this year’s meeting or the crisis risks becoming irreversible, driving new levels of conflict and suffering.

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Illustration: Craig Stephens
Climate change

Global talks on climate ‘loss and damage’ fund end in failure ahead of COP28

Nations agreed at last year’s COP27 to set up a dedicated fund to help vulnerable countries cope with climate change but left the details for later; on Saturday, the details were deferred again.

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Climate change

Opinion | COP28: protect workers’ livelihoods in any green energy transition

There can be no climate justice if the masses are left to pay for the economic shift through job losses or even more exploitative working conditions.

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China-Africa relations

Solomon Islands joins China-backed AIIB days after PM snubs Biden invite

COP28 president designate praises bank’s new climate action plan; new report questions AIIB accountability process.

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The eighth annual meeting of the board of governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) started on Monday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh under the theme “Sustainable Growth in a Challenging World”. Photo: Xinhua
Climate change

‘End fossil fuels’: thousands march to kick off climate summit

More than 500 protests were planned around the world and a turnout of more than a million people is expected during Climate Week when world leaders will meet at a United Nations gathering in New York.

Climate change

Opinion | Global climate change policy still failing women after 50 years

Focusing on the effects of climate change on women and ensuring they are involved in climate decision-making can help build a just and sustainable future for all.

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Climate change

Opinion | COP28: ostracising Big Oil and polluters won’t deliver climate action

Excluding the oil industry from climate summits would only free polluters from responsibility, accountability and exposure to opposing views. Instead, vulnerable nations should seize the opportunity to disrupt the fossil-fuel status quo at source.

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The UAE Minister of State and CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, speaks to the US Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, at the opening session of the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum, in Abu Dhabi on January 14. Al-Jaber is president of this year’s COP28 climate talks. Photo: AFP
Climate change

Opinion | Selfish humans are their own worst enemy on climate change

When individuals, communities, companies and states want to deal with climate change, they first have to recognise their shared fate and interdependence. Diversity is, after all, what makes life possible.

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Men haul their fishing net on a boat in Bacnotan, La Union, Philippines. Protection of the environment depends on humans seeing past their own interests and working together. Photo: Reuters
Climate change

Inside Out | Climate change, biodiversity efforts inseparable as mass extinction looms

How is it possible to separate the climate crisis from concerns over widespread habitat loss, species dying out and other aspects of biodiversity? Our behaviour as a species could end up exterminating us rather than driving the rest of the natural world to mortal danger.

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Climate change

Opinion | 1.5 degrees? Time to prepare for an overshoot and worse climate change

With global warming of 2.7 degrees Celsius by 2100 looming, adaptation finance for poor nations is more urgent than ever. Planet-cooling research into carbon dioxide removal and solar geoengineering must also be accelerated.

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Climate change

Macroscope | Net zero: Like small nations, small firms need a helping hand too

SMEs, a major contributor of industrial emissions, are very much left out of the global climate strategy. We need to start treating them like small countries and applying ‘loss and damage’-style solutions

A demonstration at the COP27 climate submit on November 12 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The global debate on corporate emissions has often focused on big companies, especially fossil fuel producers, neglecting SMEs. Photo: AP
Climate change

Letters | With fossil fuels spared at COP27, investors must step up action

Readers discuss the need to focus on the root cause of the climate crisis, and why Hong Kong should turn more to nuclear power.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and others attend the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 7. Photo: Reuters
Climate change

Opinion | Asia-Pacific must make a giant leap on its climate ambition

From renewable energy grids and green transport to risk management systems and climate finance, carbon neutrality must be at the heart of national development strategies.

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US-China relations

Opinion | How great-power obstinacy is strangling plans for economic recovery

Recent summits suggest the US and its allies will be in an extended tussle soon with the China-Russia partnership – an impasse that will hit geo-economic agendas across the world and doom the climate fight.

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Climate change

Eye on Asia | In climate debate, Gulf states can be a bridge between East and West

New findings show economies can grow even as carbon dioxide emissions decline. These findings are important for developing countries like India. As hydrocarbon producers with net-zero goals, Gulf states can help facilitate dialogue between historic polluters in the West and growing economies in the East.

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UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan arrives to deliver a speech on the second day of the COP27 climate conference on November 7 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The UAE has recently built on its strategy to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Photo: AFP
Climate change

Opinion | COP27 loss and damage deal: throwing money at climate change is not enough

From loss and damage to carbon trading, money can be an incentive for climate action, and Hong Kong can play a major part as a centre of climate finance. But this is not enough.

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Climate change

Outside In | After 27 years of failed climate meetings, we need a new approach

After the COP27 talks in Egypt ended with yet more dodged commitments, there is a sense that these mega meetings are not fit for purpose. Perhaps real agreements on climate action, driven by formal scientific guidance, should be made away from the media glare, to avoid grandstanding.

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Climate change

Opinion | COP27 should be Hong Kong’s call to climate action

The government shouldn’t be among those dragging their heels on climate action – not when it has promised to make the city carbon neutral by 2050. In addition to investment in green initiatives, Hong Kong needs transparency on how money spent directly translates to lower emissions and less waste.

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A jogger in Hong Kong during a hot weather warning on September 12. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Climate change

Editorial | COP27 ‘loss and damage’ deal offers hope on climate cooperation

COP27 averts collapse with last-minute agreement and then witnesses the return of collaboration between China and the United States.

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Victims of heavy flooding from monsoon rains wait to receive relief aid from the Pakistani Army in Sindh Province, Pakistan, in September. Photo: AP
Climate change

Video | COP27 delivers ‘loss and damage’ fund but no action on emissions

Pakistan

COP27: Flood-stricken Pakistan welcomes ‘loss and damage’ deal at UN summit

Officials said agreement a ‘win for developing world’ in honour of millions who suffer from climate catastrophe ‘they did not create and do not have resources to address’.

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Climate change

COP27 applauds historic ‘loss and damage’ fund, but dismayed with emissions deal

Deal does not ratchet up calls for reducing emissions, but does retain language to keep alive global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times.

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Delegates applauds as COP27 President Sameh Shoukry delivers a statement during the closing plenary at the COP27 climate summit in Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo: Reuters
Business of climate change

Indonesia forest loss released emissions equal to Ukraine in 2021

The emissions exceeded those from fossil-fuel use by Ukraine’s 43 million people, according to data on global forests released by non-profit CTrees at the COP27 summit.

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An aerial photo shows a palm oil plantation in a protected area of the Rawa Singkil wildlife reserve in Indonesia in 2018. Photo: AFP
Climate change

COP27: Last-minute objections threaten historic UN climate deal

Several cabinet ministers from across the globe said earlier on Saturday that agreement was reached on a fund for what negotiators call loss and damage.

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G20

Macroscope | Global economy’s woes have world leaders burying their heads in the sand

The world’s leaders had so many topics demanding their attention at recent summits that the parlous state of the global economy was overshadowed. Summit attendees could be forgiven for keeping quiet given the likelihood of continued monetary tightening and a 2023 of contraction and recession.

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