Climate Change Fight Yields Bitter Victory
Residents cross the Numan bridge to seek safer ground on Sept. 25 during floods in northeastern Nigeria.
Photographer: Radeno Haniel/AFP/Getty Images
Two weeks of climate talks in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh delivered a compromise accord in the fight against global warming.
The UN-sponsored COP27 meeting ran over time and ended on Sunday morning with bleary-eyed ministers and diplomats agreeing to set up a fund to help vulnerable nations face the costs of climate disasters.