The summit in Egypt could be the world's best hope of progress on the climate issue, says Justin Rowlatt.
Tens of thousands of people will be jetting to an Egyptian holiday resort beside the Red Sea this weekend in an effort to tackle climate change.
Top of Egypt's "to-do" list is the $100bn a year developed countries promised way back in 2009 to help the developing world cut emissions and adapt to our changing climate. "I don't think it is an impossible ask," the Pakistani climate minister, Sherry Rehman, told the BBC this week. Just look how much money the world finds to fund wars, she said.Internally displaced people crossing a flooded area by boat in Pakistan
In the past, the two superpowers have played a crucial role quietly helping broker compromises in the background. But only 24 out of 193 countries updated their carbon cutting ambitions this year, leaving the world on track for temperature rises of 2.7C.
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