Climate talks at COP27 are going on late into the night.

• Resource-rich countries, especially in Africa, have been against the idea.
• The main disagreement between rich and poor countries is how to help countries that have already been hurt by climate-related floods, droughts, megastorms, and wildfires.
• They also said they were worried that the summit might go against parts of a climate deal that was made in Glasgow, Scotland, last year.

At the COP27 climate talks in Egypt on Saturday, negotiators made their last push for a deal. They tried to find common ground on how to pay for disaster relief caused by climate change and how to take long-term action on climate change.

Officials from both the European Union and the Netherlands said they were worried that the talks wouldn’t move forward overnight. They also said they were worried that the summit might go against parts of a climate deal that was made in Glasgow, Scotland, last year.

The outcome of the conference, which was supposed to end on Friday, is seen by many as a test of how serious the world is about fighting climate change. This is because a war in Europe and soaring consumer prices are taking the world’s attention away from climate change.

Dutch climate minister Rob Jetten said that many countries were unhappy with the lack of progress on commitments to cut climate-warming emissions to keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, which scientists say will make the effects of climate change much worse.

Jetten told Reuters on the side of the summit, “It’s just not good enough.” “We’re still waiting for some texts, but it seems like we’re going back on what we said about Glasgow, and that won’t do.”

A draught of the agreement that was made public on Friday reaffirmed past promises to keep warming to 1.5C.

But it didn’t meet the needs of some, like the European Union and Britain, who wanted an overall deal that would make countries promise to do more to cut emissions that warm the climate. It also didn’t take up a suggestion from India and the EU to ask countries to stop using all fossil fuels, not just coal. Resource-rich countries, especially in Africa, have been against the idea.

Other problems were not solved by Friday’s draught. The main disagreement between rich and poor countries is how to help countries that have already been hurt by climate-related floods, droughts, megastorms, and wildfires.

Frans Timmermans, who is in charge of climate policy for the EU, asked the negotiators to reach a deal that builds on previous agreements.

“Everyone in the EU wants to move on and build on what we agreed to in Glasgow. “Our message to partners is clear: We can’t accept that 1.5C dies right now,” he said on Twitter. Sign up for the Reuters Sustainable Switch newsletter here to get daily, in-depth news about COP27 sent to your email.

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