So, you thought #COP27 was about #climate change? Wrong. Like every other COP in the past and every COP in future, the UN climate conference is about geopolitics and power.

Autocratic petrostates 🇸🇦 and 🇷🇺 suceeded in keeping out any reference to phasing out/down fossil fuels.

📷Ruslan Edelgeriev, Russia’s climate envoy, meeting with António Guterres at COP27, 8 Nov 2022. Russia used its participation to leverage concessions from the West related to Putin’s war in Ukraine. (Kiara Worth/COP27)