Cop27 Tag

LONDON — There have been no cutting ties at Cop27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the U.N. climate summit being held there until Nov. 18. For the official group photo on the opening ceremony on Monday, political leaders and representatives from 190 countries posed of their best formal suits to debate climate change adaptation, climate finance, decarbonization, agriculture and biodiversity over the following week. The somber image is miles away from the more relaxed scene on the forty eighth G7 Summit in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, where Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi; Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; French President Emmanuel Macron; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz; U.S. President Joe Biden; then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stood on a...