Features & Opinion

John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography at the University of Birmingham Business School, argues COP27, and all subsequent editions, will not deliver results – from emissions to plastics bans – without a real shift in perspective.

Professor Karen Turner, Director at Centre for Energy Policy, Strathclyde University, considers the implications of COP27, in which a new loss and damage fund was established – meaning wealthy countries will compensate nations on the climate crisis frontline, but failed to confirm an international plan to keep temperatures at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.