Topic: Cop27

Brazilian former President (2003-2010) and candidate for the leftist Workers Party (PT) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a Brazilian flag while leaving a polling station during the presidential run-off election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 30, 2022. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)

10 surprisingly good things from 2022

Medea Benjamin
A forest is incinerated by the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, California, on July 23, 2022. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP via Getty Images)

The year in climate change

Troy Farah
The UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 06, 2022, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Will the 'loss and damage' fund happen?

Adil Najam - The Conversation
Oil pipelines, pumping rigs, and electrical transmission lines dot the landscape along California's "Petroleum Highway" (Highway 33) running along the northwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley on April 24, 2020, near McKittrick, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

COP27 flinched on phasing out oil

Fergus Green, Harro Van Asselt - The Conversation
Aerial view of Tuvalu, South Pacific (Getty Images/imageBROKER/Michael Runkel)

Tuvalu prepares to recede into the sea

Natalie Jonas
Participants in a demonstration at the UN Climate Summit COP27, including Luisa Neubauer (3rd from right), climate activist with the Fridays for Future movement, hold placards and advocate for the 1.5 degree Celsius global temperature rise target. (Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

Blanca Begert, Emily Pontecorvo, Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
US President Joe Biden delivers a speech during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP27, at the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on November 11, 2022. (Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trillions needed to fight climate change

Blanca Begert - Grist
Participants talk to each other during a break in the closing ceremony at the UN Climate Summit COP27. (Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The climate reparations battle at COP27

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
This combination of photos shows participants snoozing during the closing session of the COP27 climate conference at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre in Egypt. (Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images)

COP27 ends with no emissions agreement

Carl Pope
Egyptian volunteers arrange sacks with plastic waste to build the world's largest plastic pyramid on September 17, 2022 in Giza, Egypt. (Fadel Dawod/Getty Images)

The plastic waste pyramid controversy

Joseph Winters - Grist
The UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 06, 2022, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

A climate reparations insurance scheme

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
US President Joe Biden delivers a speech during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP27, at the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on November 11, 2022. (Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Biden touts methane crackdown at COP27

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Alok Sharma (centre) President of the Cop26 climate summit, speaks during an informal stock taking plenary session, during an 'overun' day of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Picture date: Saturday November 13, 2021. (Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)

Calls for climate reparations at COP27

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

Climate reparations on the COP27 agenda

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist