OPINION: COP27 climate talks were held this week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with a warning from new conference president Sameh Shoukry that the needs of developing countries must be considered integral to tackling the climate crisis.
Promises made at previous COP meetings for wealthy nations to provide $100 billion of funding to the global south by 2020 have already fallen short.
Now Western governments find it difficult to concentrate on decarbonisation during the cost of living crisis triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, let alone help others.
