Australia’s new approach was a rare positive at Cop27 – but now the need for action is all the more acute | Adam Morton

Qualified victory was snatched from defeat at the climate summit with a genuine and surprising agreement on loss and damage. But there's still no plan to get to 1.5C

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The Cop27 climate summit ended in a desperate and confused flurry more than 40 hours late with a qualified victory clutched from the jaws of complete failure, but with the big issues unresolved.

If this sounds familiar, like so many climate summits before it, well ... yes. There were genuine developments over the past week, some of which could reshape the global response to the crisis. But there was also intransigence and blocking where it mattered most. Some of that is getting worse.

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