The 27ᵉ World Climate Conference is held from November 6 to 18 in Charm El-Cheikh, Egypt. This COP “of the implementation” will have to try to advance the fight against climate change or, failing this, prevent it from retreating.
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This is a cruel paradox. Climate action has never been so urgent until after this summer of cascade disasters. The climate crisis has struck all regions of the world, resulting in suffering, desolation and damage, whether Pakistan ravaged by waters, the horn of Africa threatened with famine by drought, China confronted with The worst heat wave in its history or Europe which records its hottest and driest summer.
At the same time, the geopolitical context will never have been so tense, relegating the battle for the climate in the background. While the energy, food, inflation and debt crises put under pressure from the countries already struggling with the consequences of the pandemic due to the covid-19, the war in Ukraine shakes multilateralism and promotes the use of energies fossils, main cause of warming.
It is in this context of multiple upheavals that the United Nations on the Climate (COP27), from November 6 to 18, in Charm el-Cheikh, in Egypt, in this context. . More than 40,000 participants from 196 countries – managers, negotiators and civil society – are expected in the seaside resort nestled between the Sinai and the Red Sea desert. This COP, presented by the Egyptian presidency like that “of the implementation”, from the “passage of the promises to acts”, will have to try to advance the fight against climate change or, failing that, prevent it from retreating.
a transition COP
Avinash Persaud, Special Envoy for the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, sums up this strange state of mind at the opening of a high mass whose expectations are both “high and weak”. “There is a mixture of ambition and fatalism,” he notes. A path that is all the more difficult to trace that this conference is seen by certain observers as a transitional COP. A crossing point between the COP26 of Glasgow (Scotland), which was held last year and was the most important since the Paris agreement, in 2015, and the COP28, which will take place in Dubai (United Arab Emirates ) Next year and is already promising as crucial, because the occasion of the first world assessment of climatic efforts in countries.
“Each successive COP represents an opportunity that humanity cannot afford to miss”, pleads Sameh Choukry, the president of COP27 and Minister of Egyptian Foreign Affairs, in a Letter addressed to participants /SUP> November. This conference offers “an opportunity unique in the world to come together, repair multilateralism, restore confidence and unite at the highest political level to deal with climate change,” he continues. “This existential crisis must again be the fundamental priority of political action in the world,” calls the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, in an interview with the world.
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