'Brazil is back' and other takeaways from the two-week COP27 summit held in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 20 – This year’s UN climate summit featured visits by world leaders, proposals by business leaders, and negotiations by nearly 200 nations about the future of global action on climate change.
While the deal text called for efforts to phase down use of unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, some countries had pushed to phase out, or at least phase down, all fossil fuels. Nevertheless, some electricity-poor nations in Africa argued for their right to develop their natural gas reserves, even as they face increasing climate impacts such as drought.
On Monday, Brazil also joined Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo in launching a partnership to cooperate on forest preservation. The trilateral alliance was negotiated over China’s top climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua had previously told reporters that informal dialogue with John Kerry, his US counterpart and a “close friend for 25 years”, had continued.
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