Last-minute objections threaten historic UN climate deal at COP27


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Climate activists take part in a protest, during the COP27 climate summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Nov. 19, 2022.MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY/Reuters A last minute fight over emissions cutting and the overall climate change goal is delaying a potentially historic deal that would create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution. “We are extremely on overtime. There were some good spirits earlier today. I think more people are more frustrated about the lack of progress,” Norwegian climate change minister Espen Barth Eide told the Associated Press. He said it...