What they are saying at the COP27 climate summit

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Here are some of the comments made as negotiators at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt made a final push for a deal, trying to bridge divisions over funding relief for climate change disasters and commitments for long-term action.

Here are some quotes:

SAMEH SHOUKRY, COP27 PRESIDENT

"The issue now rests with the will of the parties. It is the parties who must rise to the occasion and take upon themselves the responsibility of finding the areas of convergence."

"The (draft) text does keep the 1.5 alive," he said referring to an aim, enshrined by previous climate summits, to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

FRANS TIMMERMANS, EU CLIMATE POLICY CHIEF

"All (EU) ministers ... are prepared to walk away if we do not have a result that does justice to what the world is waiting for - namely that we do something about this climate crisis. We'd rather have no decision than a bad decision."

EAMON RYAN, IRISH ENVIRONMENT MINISTER

"We have to be fast here now, but not fast towards a bad result. Not fast in terms of accepting something that we then spend years regretting - that every year afterwards we say 'if only we had held the line in Sharm el-Sheikh and got something that really supports the most vulnerable people on our planet'."

CHRIS BOWEN, AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE CHANGE MINISTER

"Australia’s position is clear and strong: there can be no sliding back from Glasgow and the text should be strengthened where possible."

KUNAL SATYARTHI, INDIA NEGOTIATOR ON LOSS AND DAMAGE

"Everybody was flexible for the cause of loss and damage and the disasters and people dying and the economy being lost. I thank all the parties ... who were not flexible initially but who were flexible now."

ESPEN BARTH EIDE, NORWAY CLIMATE MINISTER, ON TWITTER

"Norway is happy with the progress on loss and damage. We are particularly pleased with language that ensures that new financial arrangements will enable broad mobilization of sources and channels to deliver loss and damage finance at scale."

YEB SANO, HEAD OF GREENPEACE DELEGATION AT COP27

“Once more we call on the Egyptian Presidency to reject the influence of the petro states and fossil fuel lobbyists."

“For this COP to succeed it must include a phase out of all fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas.”

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