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COP27
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Climate change
11/20/2022 9:59:00 AM
A fraught UN COP27 summit wrapped up Sunday with a landmark deal on funding to help vulnerable countries cope with devastating climate impacts -- and deep disappointment over a failure to push further ambition on cutting emissions.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/20/2022 12:29:04 AM
France's energy minister said some ``confusion'' remains over certain wording on an agreement reached by parties earlier Saturday on loss and damage funding for developing countries suffering from the impacts of climate change cause by high-emitting nations.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 9:21:10 PM
Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua welcomed Saturday the resumption of formal talks with US counterpart John Kerry as "very constructive", as the world's two top polluters ended a freeze in cooperation.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/19/2022 9:12:37 PM
Egypt’s presidency of COP27 submitted on Saturday three draft documents to the countries participating in the conference in order to accelerate the pace of negotiation and reach a unanimous agreement in the final statement of the conference.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 8:54:00 PM
COP27 host Egypt scrambled to salvage UN climate talks Saturday with the European Union and Pakistan signalling a breakthrough over the contentious issue of "loss and damage" funding for climate vulnerable nations.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/19/2022 3:26:00 PM
Sharm El-Sheikh has been rejuvenated for COP27 attendees, reports Ahmed Morsy
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 12:35:15 PM
"The vast majority of the parties indicated to me they considered the text balanced and that they constitute a potential breakthrough that can lead to consensus," Shoukry, who is also Egypt's foreign minister, told journalists as the talks went into overtime.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 12:29:00 PM
UN climate talks were thrown into disarray Saturday as the EU rejected a proposal by host country Egypt for lacking ambition on emissions cuts and warned it would rather leave with no deal than a bad one.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 12:17:19 PM
It's a desert, where little grows. It's a climate conference, where water is scarce inside buildings and out, lines are long, tempers are short, meetings go late and above all progress comes in one-drop drips.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 11:38:15 AM
United Nations climate talks ran into extra time on Saturday with little sign of a breakthrough, as negotiations remain hung up on key issues including funds for the loss and damage suffered by poorer vulnerable countries hit by extreme weather.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 10:54:34 AM
John Kerry, the top U.S. envoy at this year's U.N. climate talks in Egypt, has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson said late Friday night, another potential setback for negotiations that were already going into overtime with no result in sight.
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Business
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Economy
11/18/2022 10:04:23 PM
Egypt signed a number of partnership agreements and letters of intent (LOI) worth around EGP 10 billion with development partners last week for its NWFE and NWFE+ programmes designed to finance green and ecofriendly projects.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/18/2022 2:36:00 PM
Ahram Online is providing live updates of intense deliberations amid attempts by various parties to find a middle ground on contentious climate issues before the official end of the COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh later Friday.
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COP27
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To Know
11/18/2022 2:36:00 PM
The COP27 presidency announced on Friday shortly after 13:30 Cairo Local Time that the COP27 climate talks in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt have been extended until Saturday.
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COP27
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Focus
11/18/2022 1:09:22 PM
One of the world's first cities came close to being wiped off the map during tragic floods this summer in Pakistan. Though Mohenjo Daro survived, it has become a symbol of the threat global warming poses to humanity's cultural heritage.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
11/18/2022 12:55:00 PM
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COP27
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Climate change
11/18/2022 12:46:30 PM
UN climate talks entered their last day Friday with rich and developing nations deadlocked over creating a fund for countries devastated by the impacts of global warming -- and the EU warning its offer was final.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/18/2022 12:31:51 PM
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released a COP27 draft negotiating text early Friday morning to be hashed out by the countries’ delegates in the remaining few hours of the annual climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/18/2022 11:50:00 AM
Extra efforts are needed in the remaining hours of the 27th session of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP) to respond to the urgent and legitimate demand for adequate funding step up for Loss and Damage, COP27 President Sameh Shoukry said on Thursday.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/17/2022 11:57:19 PM
African civil society groups have expressed their disappointment at the prospect of delaying decisions on the issue of Loss and Damage – which is one of the most pressing issues on the agenda of the UN climate summit (COP27) currently underway in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheik city – till 2024.
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