COP27 as it happened: day one closes following Rishi Sunak speech and meeting with Emmanuel Macron
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The first day of the COP27 conference has come to an end, with world leaders such as Rishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon among the world leaders attending the COP27 climate talks in Egypt today, amid pressure over who will pay for damage by global warming.
The conference takes place against a backdrop of increasingly devastating extreme weather around the world, as well as an energy and cost-of-living crisis driven by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Sunak appeared at a roundtable this morning, before meeting Emmanuel Macron and giving a statement in the afternoon. The Scottish premier spoke at a panel with government leaders and experts.
As the meeting kicked off in Sharm El-Sheikh there was yet another warning from UN experts that efforts to limit temperature rises to 1.5C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change was “barely within reach”. The past eight years are on track to be the hottest on record, with sea level rise accelerating, the melting of Europe’s Alpine glaciers shattering records, and devastating floods, drought and heatwaves hitting in 2022.
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