Mike Hosking: As COP27 goes nowhere, the Govt is still lost in climate ideology

I wonder as James Shaw sits in Egypt watching yet another COP gabfest go nowhere, whether he has worked out the $20 million our country has offered for loss and damage is essentially the same mistake they have made with the farmers in their He Waka Eke Noa response.

We are one of just three countries, as I understand it, which has offered any money at all.

Loss and damage is this year's pet theme. It's around the broad idea that poor countries cop the worst of climate change damage, so the rich countries should pay for that.

The sad fact is, even if they did, what would it achieve in terms of climate change?