Leaders from poor countries criticised wealthy governments and oil companies for driving global warming, using their speeches on Tuesday at the second day of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt to demand that they pay up for damages being inflicted on their economies.
Small island states already buffeted by increasingly violent ocean storms and sea-level rise called on oil companies to shell out some of their huge recent profits, while developing African states called for more international funds for adaptation.
As this took place, demands continued for the release of jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah who is still on hunger strike in Egypt.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was reportedly expected to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Tuesday to raise the case of Abdel Fattah.
Former British PM Boris Johnson called on Monday for Cairo to immediately release the British-Egyptian.
Abdel Fattah has entered his third day of a water strike following over 200 days of consuming just 100 calories a day, to protest his continued detention.
He is among the most high-profile of the thousands of political prisoners held by Egypt.