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A woman walks past a COP27 sign at the UN climate summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 16. Peter Dejong/The Associated Press UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged world governments to “stand and deliver” a strong climate deal at the COP27 summit in Egypt on Thursday as negotiators remained far apart on key issues a day before the agreement’s deadline. The two-week conference at the seaside resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh is a test of global resolve to combat global warming as governments around the world are buffeted by crises ranging from a land war in Europe to sky-high consumer costs. “Global emissions are at their highest level in history – and rising. Climate impacts are decimating economies and societies – and growing. We know what we need to do – and we have the tools and resources to get it done,” Guterres told the conference. “I am here to appeal to all parties to rise to this moment and to the greatest challenge facing humanity. The world is watching and has a si...

Activists participate in a protest at the COP27 UN Climate Summit on Nov. 18, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Peter Dejong/The Associated Press The COP27 negotiations in Egypt remained in deadlock late on Friday, the day the UN-sponsored climate conference was to finish, in spite of a late intervention by the European Union to help developing countries pay for the damages inflicted by catastrophic climate events with a so-called loss and damage fund. The talks have been extended until Saturday. Delegates and environmental groups on Friday afternoon, local time, said that the summit faced collapse unless breakthroughs were made in the commitment to launch such a fund, and in the effort, also from developing countries, to ensure that any final agreement calls for the gradual elimination of all fossil fuels, not just coal. “The success or failure of this COP27 depends on the equitable phase-out of all fossil fuels,” Catherine Abreu, founder of the environmental group Destination Zero and a m...