Cop 27 theme

With one month to go before the Egypt has pushed to prioritise climate finance and Around 90 heads of state have confirmed their attendance, The World Leaders Summit, which takes place in the first two days of the conference, will set the overall tone on what is needed to fulfil the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and keep the 1.5°C global warming temperature limitation within reach. Over the remaining period, several themes will be tackled, ranging from finance to gender. Here are the 11 thematic days taking place at Cop27 and what they mean. Finance Day Sending a signal that it is the most pressing issue, climate finance will kick off the conference’s thematic days. Finance was also the first topic of discussion at last year's summit in Glasgow. “A cross-cutting issue is always going to be finance — how are we going to pay for this?” said Mr Aboulmagd at a virtual press conference last week. “We cannot continue on this extremely adversarial trajectory. We need to find creative ways to finance.” Low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure in low and middle-income countries could require investments of around $1.6 trillion annually from now to 2030, according to the World Bank. A sore point has been developed nations’ unfulfilled pledge to provide developing countries with $100bn a year to fight climate change, but that would still not be enough. Key topics of discussion for Finance Day will include addressing unsustainable levels of debt in developing countries, red...

Delivering for people and the planet On 20November, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), that took place in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh, concluded with a historic decision to establish and operationalize a loss and damage fund. Welcoming the decision and calling the fund essential, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that more needs to be done to drastically reduce emissions now. “The world still needs a giant leap on climate ambition.” “The red line we must not cross is the line that takes our planet over the 1.5 degree temperature limit,” he stressed, urging the world not to relent “in the fight for climate justice and climate ambition.” “We can and must win this battle for our lives,” he concluded. From 6 to 20November, COP27 held high-level and side events, key negotiations, and press conferences, hosting more than 100 Heads of State and Governments, over 35,000 participants and numerous pavilions showcasing climate action around the world and across different sectors. UN Chief: “We can and must win this battle for our lives” as COP27 concludes COP27 concludes with a historic decision to establish and operationalize a loss and damage fund. “Together, let’s not relent in the fight for climate justice and climate ambition,” said the Secretary-General in his closing messaging. “We can and must win this battle for our lives.”

The just-concluded COP27, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, brought together more than 35,000 people from across the globe to deliberate on important actions for addressing the climate. COP27, dubbed “African COP” and “Implementation COP,” raised expectations that decisions from previous conferences, reflecting the needs and priorities of the most vulnerable countries, will begin to be implemented. After two weeks of negotiations, COP27 adopted the Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan "SHIP" as the main decision for guiding ambitious climate actions. Many see the plan as a way to advance efforts from previous conferences, such as the loss and damage fund. Others, however, feel it falls short in mitigation ambitions. The highlight of COP27 was the historic decision to establish a fund for responding to loss and damage. It is a significant milestone because it comes after almost three decades of asking and it sets a precedence for climate justice. Yet to be resolved, however, is the design and operationalization of the fund to support the most vulnerable, especially in the Least Developed Countries and Small Islands Developing States. The conference did not achieve much success around mitigation. It was unable to reach agreement, for example, on phasing out of coal and other fossils fuel or setting emission peaking periods. This impedes efforts to limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5°c (above pre-industrial levels). To reach this target, we need rapid, deep and ...

A worker prepares the entrance to the ‘green zone’ before the UN’s global summit on the climate crisis in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photograph: Thomas Hartwell/AP A worker prepares the entrance to the ‘green zone’ before the UN’s global summit on the climate crisis in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photograph: Thomas Hartwell/AP Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the When does it start? The conference will be hosted by the Egyptian government in Sharm el-Sheikh, opening on 6 November. For two days after that, Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 November, world leaders will gather for a series of closed-door meetings, and direct their officials to get the kind of deal needed. They will then depart, leaving the complex negotiations to their representatives, mainly environment ministers or similarly senior officials. The talks are scheduled to end at 6pm on Friday 18 November but past experience of Cops shows they are likely to extend into Saturday and perhaps even to Sunday. Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement? As part of the Paris accord in 2015, countries pledged to keep global temperature rises to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Yes – under the However, to meet those goals, countries also agreed on non-binding national targets to cut – or in the case of developing ...

COP27 brought governments together to accelerate global efforts to confront the climate crisis. It was an important moment because the latest science shows that climate change is moving much faster than we are, pushing ecosystems and communities to their limits. We need to urgently scale up efforts to help people and nature adapt to a warming world and to implement climate solutions - which are already available across all sectors and can more than halve emissions by 2030.This is vital if we are to limit global warming to 1.5°C and avoid the most devastating impacts on people and nature. We are hopeful that, as citizens around the world increasingly demand action on the climate crisis, we can work together to focus on implementation and delivering an immediate response to the climate emergency. COP27 Advocacy and Policy Resources Manifesto: • Driving Systems Transformation: A WWF Manifesto from COP27 to COP15: Regional Expectations: • WWF Africa Expectations for COP27: • WWF Latin America and Carribbean Expectations for COP27: Thematic Expectations: • WWF Food Manifesto for COP27: • WWF Forest Expectations for COP27: • WWF Oceans Expectations for COP27: Healthy nature is an ally that helps prevent climate breakdown and make us more resilient to a warming planet. A WWF report - Climate’s Secret Ally: Uncovering the story of nature in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report- draws upon the IPCC’s work to highlight the interlinked emergencies of human-induced climate change and biod...