WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The Center for International Environmental Law issued the following news release: As COP27 draws to a close, negotiations have centered around topics including fossil fuels, loss and damage, Article 6, public participation, and States' climate ambition. Members of the Center for International Environmental Law COP delegation had the following responses: Nikki Reisch, Director of Climate & Energy on fossil fuels: "The outcome of this year's climate talks turned on two ce  more

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 21 (TNStalk) -- The Environmental Defense Fund issued the following statement on Nov. 20, 2022: * * * The annual United Nations climate talks (COP27) concluded Sunday in Egypt with some progress on technical issues and agreement on funding arrangements for loss and damage, including the creation of a loss and damage fund that will, in time, provide financing for developing countries that have been hit with irrevocable damages from climate change. Countries also rei  more

LONDON, England, Nov. 21 -- Friends of the Earth UK issued the following news release: A historic COP27 deal that sees a first step towards wealthy nations providing loss and damage funding for vulnerable countries to help them deal with the impacts of climate change has been welcomed by Friends of the Earth. However, the environmental campaign group warned that little progress has been made during the climate talks in phasing out coal, oil and gas, and securing the action needed to avert cata  more

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 21 (TNSsel) -- The Climate Justice Alliance issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2022: As the UNFCCC 27th Conference of the Parties came to its conclusion with the adoption of the Sharm El-Sheikh Implementation Plan, climate-impacted peoples recognized critical progress while also decrying countries failing to confront the root causes of climate crisis at the scale required as the final decision maintained further openings for fossil fuels and false climate  more

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 21 -- Greenpeace Canada issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2022: COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh has ended with the historic creation of a United Nations loss and damage fund, directly tackling the consequences of climate inaction and fossil fuel expansion. Climate Action Network Canada joins communities from the Global South, island states, and civil society worldwide in celebrating this global agreement after a thirty-year-long fight. This decision sends a me  more

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 21 (TNStalk) -- Greenpeace International issued the following statement on Nov. 20, 2022: * * * Greenpeace welcomes the COP27 agreement to establish a Loss and Damage Finance Fund as an important foundation in building towards climate justice. But, warns against politics as usual. Yeb Sano, Executive Director, Greenpeace Southeast Asia and Head of the Greenpeace delegation attending the COP said "The agreement for a Loss and Damage Finance Fund marks a new dawn f  more

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 21 (TNSsel) -- Oil Change International issued the following news release: The COP27 climate talks were supposed to be an "implementation COP," "commensurate with the challenge based on science," but the two weeks of UN climate negotiations have been dominated by fossil fuel industry presence and have seen countries make no progress on collective commitments on fossil fuels. Despite important progress on establishing a loss and damage fund, the COP has failed to a  more

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 21 (TNSsel) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release: The parties at COP27, the annual U.N. climate conference, released their final decision titled the Sharm El-Sheikh Implementation Plan after more than two weeks of negotiations that ran into overtime. In a win for climate-vulnerable countries, delegates at COP27 agreed to establish a fund to pay for the loss and damage from extreme climate impacts. That is an important step, although  more