Few governments have done much about the climate this year

the world’s leaders will assemble once more to talk about the climate. This time last year all eyes were on Glasgow, in Britain, for the 26 climate summit. Attention now turns to Egypt, host of 27. Progress since Glasgow has been disappointing, as the latest Emissions Gap Report from the Environment Programme laments. This considers all new national climate promises and policies since that summit and translates them into future reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.