You have to go back to 1997’s Kyoto Protocol (ratified in December 2005) for the first international framework to limit global greenhouse gas emissions. 192 states – almost all the UN’s members – agreed to reductions in emissions compared to 1990 levels averaging 5%. With decarbonisation the key theme of Friday’s COP27 discussions, Environment Journal looks at how the push to decarbonise stacks up to date.

Wednesday was designated COP27’s ‘finance day.’ The mood music from the first full day of negotiation was largely positive, with the launch of several economic initiatives and the first countries of the global north moving towards loss and damage funding.