The focus at the climate conference turns to biodiversity, and a draft cover text is expected to emerge
Cop watchers are still reeling from the dramatic and at times farcical scenes at last night’s Russian Federation Cop27 event.
It was, Damian Carrington and Nina Lakhani report, and notable for two things: the shouts of “war criminals” and the complete absence of any discussion of the nation’s oil and gas production. The latter is despite Russia being the second biggest oil and gas producer in the world, and carbon emissions from fossil fuels being the overwhelming cause of the climate crisis.