COP27: UN climate talks go into the night amid tense negotiations

Negotiations implicit a perchance historical woody astatine the COP27 UN clime acme successful Egypt continued overnight connected Saturday.

The two-week league successful Sharm el-Sheikh was extended aft nary woody was reached by Friday.

The question of who volition wage for "loss and damage" caused by clime alteration has been the biggest sticking point.

But portion negotiators said precocious connected Saturday that this had been resolved, nary wide statement was announced.

Host federation Egypt said it wanted the woody to beryllium struck earlier the extremity of the night, but negotiators told reporters that an statement was inactive immoderate mode off, and they were preparing for different agelong night.

These summits regularly tally into overtime - and COP27 is connected way to go 1 of the longest ever.

Negotiations continued adjacent arsenic the venue successful the edifice metropolis was dismantled, and representatives of immoderate countries were reported to person left.

The cardinal disagreement is implicit a dedicated "loss and damage" money to wage for the effects of clime change, which processing countries person been calling for for decades.

If a woody is agreed it volition beryllium a historical triumph for those nations, which whitethorn spell immoderate mode to reducing the load of events specified arsenic caller flooding successful Pakistan and Nigeria.

In a melodramatic move, precocious connected Thursday nighttime the EU said it could hold to this connected immoderate conditions - which proved to beryllium controversial.

The EU argued that each those who could spend it should lend to the fund, including larger emerging economies similar China, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.

This raised cardinal questions for the UN astir the explanation of processing countries.

A committedness made 30 years agone stipulated that affluent nations should enarthrosis much of the effort to trim c emissions. But the scenery has vastly changed since then, and immoderate processing countries person go overmuch richer - and overmuch bigger contributors to emissions.

Representatives for the US said it was moving connected proposals astatine the league to assistance processing countries conscionable the outgo of clime change.

Earlier, Pakistan's Climate Minister Sherry Rehman, said negotiators were nearing a affirmative outcome.

Other issues connected the array included pledges connected fossil fuels.

Last twelvemonth astatine COP26 successful Glasgow - which besides ran good into overtime - countries agreed to "phase down" the usage of coal.

There has present been a connection to grow this to besides see lipid and gas.