World leaders, negotiators and industry representatives have arrived in Sharm el-Sheik in Egypt for Cop27, the UN’s climate change conference. A UN report set the stage for talks, stating that there is ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’ and that progress on limiting global temperature rises has been ‘woefully inadequate’. So will governments take the opportunity to press ahead with their promises or could the conference live up to accusations of greenwashing? Madeleine Finlay hears from Guardian Australia’s climate and environment editor, Adam Morton, about what’s happened since Cop26, our current path to catastrophic heating and what’s likely to be on the agenda over the next two weeks