UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that “more must be done” on climate change, after a last-minute deal was reached at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
Officials and negotiators agreed a deal in the early hours of Nov. 20 to create a fund to “compensate” poor nations that claim to be victims of climate change.
Sunak, who attended the summit earlier this month after originally deciding not to attend, said in a brief statement, “I welcome the progress made at COP27, but there can be no time for complacency.”
He said it is “vital to the future of our planet” to keep the “1.5 degrees commitment,” which comes from the Paris Agreement, the global treaty on climate change negotiated in 2015….