{"id":5638,"date":"2023-01-17T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/heres-the-exciting-cop27-breakthrough-no-one-is-talking-about"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:26","slug":"heres-the-exciting-cop27-breakthrough-no-one-is-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/heres-the-exciting-cop27-breakthrough-no-one-is-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the exciting COP27 breakthrough no one is talking about"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11112022-11-25T192524Z_1065492887_RC26TX9MJDSZ_RTRMADP_3_GLOBAL-FOREX28129_167395796428129.jpeg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The most celebrated prize from the recent COP27 climate summit in Egypt was the creation of a \u201closs and damage\u201d fund to compensate poor and vulnerable communities suffering the impacts of climate change.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>But there was another breakthrough made in Sharm El-Sheikh that isn\u2019t getting the headlines but has the potential to unlock trillions of dollars for climate action.<br\/><br\/>Getting wealthy countries to pay their climate debt has been like trying to get blood out of a stone.\u00a0 Despite these rich polluters being the ones that caused the climate crisis and despite them acknowledging this and pledging to pay $100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020, they have failed to keep this promise.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most celebrated prize from the recent COP27 climate summit in Egypt was the creation of a \u201closs and damage\u201d fund to compensate poor and vulnerable communities suffering the impacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,27],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-climate-finance","tag-climate-justice"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6847,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/6847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}