'Highway to climate hell': High stakes at COP27 | The Listening Post
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With world leaders gathered in Egypt for the latest UN climate summit, the agenda could not be clearer. Experts say the policies governments put in place at last year’s conference in Scotland will still leave large parts of the planet uninhabitable. The lack of progress has many questioning the COP process.Contributors:Bahar Dutt - Environmental journalist; associate professor, Shiv Nadar UniversityAsad Rehman - Executive director, War on Want; lead spokesperson, Climate Justice CoalitionKatharine Hayhoe - Chief scientist, The Nature ConservancyJoanna Depledge - Former programme officer, UN Climate Secretariat; research fellow, Climate StrategiesOn our radar:Egypt is under fire over the case of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, whose imprisonment has threatened to overshadow proceedings for COP27. Tariq Nafi looks into the case.Prigozhin: the man doing Putin's dirty workYevgeny Prigozhin is the Russian oligarch best known as the man behind Wagner - a private military company - mercenaries notorious for doing the Kremlin’s bidding overseas. He’s also the creator of a media network which has produced propaganda and misinformation in Russia and abroad.Contributor:Ilya Barabanov - Journalist, BBCCredit: 'All Eyes On Wagner' - a project by OpenFacto dedicated to tracking Wagner mercenaries’ activities around the world and their alleged abuses.Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News