Beyond the Headlines: Is the world doing enough to stop climate change?

There is a debate raging internationally about climate change.

As we’re greeted by dire headlines and alarm, the UN had a stark warning ― the battle against carbon emissions isn’t going well.

As the world gathers in Egypt for the Cop27 global climate forum, it can be hard to understand exactly where we stand, what’s being done and whether it's even still possible to stop climate change.

This week on Beyond the Headlines, host James Haines Young looks at where the world is on climate action and asks what we can expect from Cop27.

The Kuwait Towers are shrouded amid a sandstorm. The world has seen more extreme weather in the past decade, with the Gulf witnessing cyclones, flooding and extreme heat. EPA

A formerly sunken boat sits upright on the shore of Lake Mead, Nevada, where water levels have dropped. EPA

Homes surrounded by floodwater in Pakistan's south-western Baluchistan province earlier this year. AP Photo

Steam rises from a coal-fired power plant near Grevenbroich, Germany. AP Photo

Activists display prints replicating solar panels during a rally to mark Earth Day in Washington. AP Photo

A glacier, which has lost most of its ice in the past few years, on Mount Zugspitze, Germany. AP Photo

A bucket wheel excavator mining coal at an open-cast mine in Luetzerath, Germany. AP Photo

Climate activists form a human chain spelling out '100% renewable', at Cop21 in Paris in 2015. AP

US president George W Bush and first lady Barbara Bush sign a pledge to protect the Earth in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. AP Photo

Extinction Rebellion activists holds placards at Cop26 last year in Glasgow, Scotland. AP Photo

Demonstrators hold banners calling for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997. AP Photo

An artwork entitled 'One Heart One Tree' by Naziha Mestaoui is displayed on the Eiffel Tower before the 2015 Paris climate conference. AP Photo

A woman works at a coal depot in Ahmedabad, India, in May. AP Photo

Plastic waste on the banks of the Nile in Cairo in September. AP Photo

Steam rises from a coal-fired power plant Niederaussem, Germany. AP Photo

Lake Poopo, home to the Uru Murato indigenous community in Bolivia, has largely become a desert. AFP

US firefighters battle a blaze near Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 2011. AP Photo

Cars on motorway in Frankfurt, Germany. Vehicle emissions are a contributor to climate change. AP Photo

The rapidly drying marshes of Chibayish in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province. AFP