Cop27: was this the year climate progress
unravelled?
Today in
Focus Series
Presented
by Michael Safi with Fiona Harvey; produced by Lucy Houghand Rudi Zygadlo;
executive producer Homa Khaleeli
Fri 4 Nov
2022 03.00 GMTLast modified on Fri 4 Nov 2022 08.56 GMT
The war in Ukraine has led to soaring energy prices,
political enmity and instability. Can the meeting of global leaders re-focus
the world’s attention on the climate catastrophe?
Last year
Cop26 ended with a hard-won agreement and some optimism that global leaders
were finally taking important steps – however small – to address the climate
crisis. Since then the urgency of taking action has been driven home by a
catalogue of extreme weather – from the UK suffering its hottest summer to
Pakistan being engulfed in floods and the Horn of Africa being gripped by a
terrible drought.
Yet as
Cop27 begins in Egypt on Sunday, the Guardian’s environment correspondent Fiona
Harvey tells Michael Safi, the world’s attention appears to be anywhere but on
the talks. The war in Ukraine has led to soaring energy prices, with global
powers at loggerheads and a rush for new sources of fossil fuels – creating
even more obstacles to consensus-building on reducing emissions.
Even in the
UK, which hosted Cop26 in Glasgow, there seems to be a lack of focus. The prime
minister, Rishi Sunak, at first said he wouldn’t be attending, although he has
U-turned on this, while King Charles’s absence has been greeted with dismay. So
how will the climate talks play out – and what would a successful Cop look like
this year?
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