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COP27: What you need to know

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Around the COP27 Venue at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (UNFCCC, Simon Stiel, Kiara Worth)

Around the COP27 Venue at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (UNFCCC, Simon Stiel, Kiara Worth)

KALAIN HO­SEIN

 

World lead­ers are meet­ing in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, for two weeks of cli­mate ne­go­ti­a­tions at COP27. As the world bat­tles an en­er­gy cri­sis, ris­ing in­fla­tion, and a war in Eu­rope, these crit­i­cal cli­mate talks con­tin­ue to bring the glob­al strug­gle of cut­ting green­house gas emis­sions to the fore­front.

Last year, at COP26 in Glas­gow, Scot­land, na­tions col­lec­tive­ly agreed that they must im­me­di­ate­ly do more to pre­vent ris­ing glob­al tem­per­a­tures. How­ev­er, these ac­tions have yet to be im­ple­ment­ed at the promised pace while the con­se­quences of cli­mate change un­fold.

Over the next two weeks, COP27 is ex­pect­ed to be rife with ten­sion be­tween rich coun­tries that pol­lute the at­mos­phere, and poor­er na­tions that are on the front­lines of the cli­mate im­pacts as the ques­tion of who will pay for the loss­es and dam­age is hot­ly de­bat­ed.

 

What is COP27?

 

COP stands for Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties. In this case, the "par­ties" re­fer to the 197 na­tions that agreed to the Unit­ed Na­tions Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change (UN­FC­CC) in 1992.

Trinidad and To­ba­go signed and rat­i­fied the UN­FC­CC in 1994.

The treaty ad­dress­es the "dan­ger­ous hu­man in­ter­fer­ence with the cli­mate sys­tem" and sta­bi­lizes lev­els of green­house gas emis­sions in the at­mos­phere. The U.N. cli­mate body con­venes those gov­ern­ments once a year to dis­cuss how to ad­dress cli­mate change joint­ly.

There is al­so an­oth­er COP tak­ing place in De­cem­ber this year in Mon­tre­al, Cana­da – COP15. How­ev­er, COP15 is the 15th meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties to the U.N. Con­ven­tion on Bi­o­log­i­cal Di­ver­si­ty.

Around the COP27 Venue at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (UNFCCC, Simon Stiel, Kiara Worth)

Around the COP27 Venue at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (UNFCCC, Simon Stiel, Kiara Worth)

 

When is COP27?

 

The Con­fer­ence kicked off on Sun­day, No­vem­ber 6, and runs through No­vem­ber 18. How­ev­er, these cli­mate ne­go­ti­a­tions un­of­fi­cial­ly be­gan last week and are his­tor­i­cal­ly con­tentious, so it may go over.

 

Where is COP27?

 

These high-lev­el cli­mate meet­ings are be­ing held at Sharm el Sheikh. This Egypt­ian city, nick­named The City of Peace, is on the south­ern tip of the Sinai Penin­su­la, along the Red Sea. It is pri­mar­i­ly known for its mul­ti­ple re­sorts and host­ing in­ter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences and diplo­mat­ic meet­ings.

COP27 will be split be­tween the Blue Zone and Green Zone, sim­i­lar to COP26.

The Blue Zone, at the Sharm el Sheikh In­ter­na­tion­al Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, is for those reg­is­tered with the UN­FC­CC and is the site of the of­fi­cial ne­go­ti­a­tions. It will be man­aged by the Unit­ed Na­tions and sub­ject to in­ter­na­tion­al law.

The Green Zone is at the Peace Park Botan­i­cal Gar­den, across the road from the Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, and is a space for youth groups, civ­il so­ci­ety, acad­e­mia, artists, and busi­ness to host events, ex­hi­bi­tions, cul­tur­al per­for­mances, work­shops, and talks. This area will be run by the Egypt­ian gov­ern­ment and open to the pub­lic.

 

What is COP27's goal?

 

De­pend­ing on whom you ask, you may get a dif­fer­ent an­swer.

De­vel­op­ing coun­tries, like Trinidad and To­ba­go and our neigh­bour­ing East­ern Caribbean is­lands, want a com­mit­ment to the al­ready pledged mon­ey to ad­dress al­ready-present cli­mate-fu­elled dis­as­ters. This fund­ing is known as Loss and Dam­age. These de­vel­op­ing coun­tries are push­ing wealthy na­tions fur­ther on cli­mate fi­nanc­ing. Specif­i­cal­ly, new fund­ing for cli­mate adap­tion and mit­i­ga­tion to ad­dress re­lo­ca­tion for those per­ma­nent­ly dis­placed due to flood­ing or sea lev­el rise and man­ag­ing the eco­nom­ic toll cli­mate dis­as­ters have on these low­er-in­come coun­tries.

How­ev­er, wealthy, long-pol­lut­ing na­tions have re­sist­ed ef­forts to pay for the ex­treme weath­er events that are be­com­ing more fre­quent and dev­as­tat­ing.

Mean­while, wealthy na­tions want to place the fo­cus on ways de­vel­op­ing coun­tries can phase out fos­sil fu­els and tran­si­tion to green­er en­er­gy sources.

Delegates gather for the opening plenary of COP27 (UNFCCC, Simon Stiel, Kiara Worth)

Delegates gather for the opening plenary of COP27 (UNFCCC, Simon Stiel, Kiara Worth)

Johann Olivier

 

Who will be at COP27?

 

Over 100 heads of state are ex­pect­ed to make an ap­pear­ance, ac­cord­ing to the UN­FC­CC, with more than 50,000 del­e­gates.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's del­e­ga­tion will be led by the Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment, Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, and the Min­istry’s head of the Mul­ti­lat­er­al En­vi­ron­men­tal Agree­ments, Kis­han Ku­mars­ingh.

Re­gion­al­ly, high-lev­el state­ments are ex­pect­ed to be giv­en by Mia Mot­t­ley, Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos; Philip Davis, Prime Min­is­ter of Ba­hamas; Dick­on Mitchell, Prime Min­is­ter of Grena­da, and Gas­ton Browne, Prime Min­is­ter of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, who al­so is speak­ing on be­half of the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS), of which T&T is a mem­ber.

Oth­er Trin­bag­o­ni­ans in­volved in pan­el dis­cus­sions and ne­go­ti­a­tions al­so are ex­pect­ed to be at the Con­fer­ence, in­clud­ing Dr Ar­lene Laing, the Co­or­di­nat­ing Di­rec­tor of the Caribbean Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Or­ga­ni­za­tion; Rac­quel Moses, the CEO of the Caribbean Cli­mate-Smart Ac­cel­er­a­tor, and Ak­il Cal­len­dar, Youth Spe­cial­ist at the Sus­tain­able En­er­gy for All (SE­forALL).

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This sto­ry was pro­duced as part of the 2022 Cli­mate Change Me­dia Part­ner­ship, a jour­nal­ism fel­low­ship or­ga­nized by In­ternews' Earth Jour­nal­ism Net­work and the Stan­ley Cen­ter for Peace and Se­cu­ri­ty.


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