The Guardian's Fiona Harvey Reporting on COP 27

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After the Paris agreement in 2015, we got that down to heading for about three degrees of warming. And with the pledges that were made at COP 26 last year, if all of those pledges are fulfilled, we'll get to about 1.8 degrees. But you can see that there is progress happening. Some countries are bringing down their greenhouse gas emissions. Some are investing heavily in renewable energy. The price of moving to renewable energy is much lower now. It's far cheaper than going for fossil fuels. We just need to accelerate this progress.

Cop27 got off to a difficult start last week. Attendees struggled with a lack of food and drink, civil society group events were curtailed, and more than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists hit the conference halls – more than the delegations of many of the most vulnerable countries combined. As we head into the second week, Madeleine Finlay hears from biodiversity reporter Patrick Greenfield about what it’s been like in Sharm el-Sheikh, and from environment editor Fiona Harvey about what’s happened so far and whether much progress is likely to be made in the final days of negotiations. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod