The organization of what will be the next meeting of the Climate Summit, COP27, which will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, begins. In the city of Bonn, in Germany, almost 200 delegations met to lay the groundwork for the next UN meeting on climate change.
New hopes at the upcoming Global Summit on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Five months after the start and after the lack of great advances in the COP26 in Glasgow, representatives of the UN and the Egyptian Government began this Monday, June 6, in Bonn, Germany, and until June 16, technical meetings that allow opening a “new phase” that curbs the effects of climate change.
This annual Conference on Climate Change in Bonn (SB 56) brings with its opening the “implementation phase”, after the operational details of the Paris Agreement were finalized at COP26 in Glasgow, United Kingdom, said Patricia Espinosa , UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change at the start of this 10-day meeting.
Espinosa stressed that the process must be “very efficient”, since “there is no time left”, and that “it will once again review key issues such as adaptation and mitigation measures for the climate crisis, reparation for losses and damage caused and support to developing countries, particularly in the financial field”.
“We need progress here in Bonn if we want to be successful in November” in the Egyptian town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Espinosa warned during the initial plenary session.
The head of the UN Climate Office, whose second term ends this year, on Monday urged nations to remain hopeful and focus on tackling global warming despite obstacles to international cooperation, including the war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, food shortages and rising energy costs. And she warned that the current situation “has nothing to do” with that of COP26.
“I appeal to all of you, especially in these difficult and challenging times, not to lose hope, not to lose focus, but to use our united efforts against climate change as the last act of unity among nations,” he said. .
What is pending from the COP26 in Glasgow to work in Bonn
“The world is going to have a question in Sharm el-Sheikh: What progress have you made since Glasgow?” is what Espinosa says that they will ask themselves in Egypt.
And given this, in Bonn they must work (before November) on the list of pending challenges that remained at the last Global Summit on Climate Change.
Many of the key issues that delegates in Bonn will try to resolve in the coming days center around financial aid to poor countries struggling to cope with the impacts of climate change. Espinosa says there is “hope” that the $100 billion mark that could not be reached in 2020 will be achieved.
Another challenge is the increase in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). That is, the efforts of each country to reduce its emissions by 2030.
For Patricia Espinosa “this still does not look good. So far we have only received a few updated NDCs, we need more,” she said. “We must understand that climate change is moving exponentially. We can no longer afford to make incremental progress… We must move these negotiations forward more quickly. The world awaits it,” she said.
Despite the commitment to review these goals before the end of the year, none of the major CO2 emitters such as China and the United States (they account for 44% of the world’s carbon emissions) have so far met this goal.
The representatives of the group of 46 least developed countries demanded that those that pollute the planet the most to reduce their emissions more strongly.
“Countries with much greater responsibility and capabilities than ours must close the funding gap so that when the impacts of climate change hit – when homes and hospitals are leveled, when crops are destroyed, when islands sink and when entire communities are displaced – the costs do not fall on already vulnerable households,” said the group’s president, Madeleine Diouf Sarr of Senegal.
In recent years, many developing countries and activists have called for a fund to compensate poor countries for the devastation caused by climate change, caused disproportionately by rich countries due to past emissions.
Given the panorama, Bonn will have to increase the pressure on the countries that have not fulfilled their commitment to zero net emissions and for those that have done so to review their goals and set earlier deadlines.
On the other hand, the mechanism known as World Balance or “global stocktake” (GST) will be launched for the first time, a process created last year to evaluate collective progress in complying with the Paris Agreement.
Since the signing of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, most countries have stepped up their efforts to reduce the greenhouse gases that underlie man-made global warming. But these promises still fall far short of what is needed to limit global warming from pre-industrial times to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) by the end of the century.
Egypt’s role at the Climate Change Summit
Egypt, host of the upcoming summit and a developing nation in North Africa, will push countries to fulfill their promises to slash greenhouse gas emissions and allow climate activists to protest, said Sameh Shoukry, the president. incoming COP27 in an interview with the AP agency on May 23.
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“We are developing a facility adjacent to the conference center that will provide (activists) the full opportunity to participate, to activism, to demonstrate, to express their opinion,” Shoukry said.
Protests at UN world climate conferences often fill the streets and are practically a conference of their own.
The Egyptian Foreign Minister also added that the general objective of this Summit in the Red Sea tourist city of Sharm el-Sheikh will be the “application” of the agreement.
“Commitments and promises now have to be implemented across all sectors of the climate change agenda, whether it be adaptation, mitigation or financing, loss and damage,” Shoukry said during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, held between on May 22 and 26.
“We hope that the discussion (on loss and damage) will be comprehensive,” Shoukry said, adding that there should be a recognition among all countries “that we are all in the same boat and for us to be successful, we must all be successful.”
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) it has a near-universal membership (197 parties), and is the precursor treaty to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. The main objective of the Paris Agreement is to keep the increase in global average temperature in this century well below 2 ℃, and drive efforts to further limit this increase to 1.5 ℃.
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