Beginning next week at the COP 27 meeting, global climate negotiators will try to put decades of bureaucratic bargaining into practice in areas where rising temperatures are hitting people the hardest
The global climate summit that begins next week in Egypt won’t hinge on backroom discussions among negotiators.
Instead, COP 27 will largely be deemed a success or failure based on the quality of its “Action Agenda”—commitments of climate action and aid that flow from the summit of world leaders at the start of the two-week conference. ‘Implementation’ This conference completes the shift from negotiating the Paris Agreement to putting into action. It’s a a sharp departure from the nearly 30-year-old process of haggling over subparagraphs and the placement of commas in negotiating documents.
Country negotiators in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, do have some tasks left to them. They must flesh out the Mitigation Work Programme, which was launched last year in Glasgow, Scotland, to help deliver more emissions reductions this decade. Scientists warn that this is necessary to keep the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius alive.
“That’ll be a big subtext” in Sharm el-Sheikh, he said. “And a lot of people will be saying, ‘Is 1.5 dead?’ You know, basically, last year at Glasgow, [U.K. COP President] Alok Sharma said, ‘It’s in critical care. It’s not doing well, but it’s not deceased.’ And this year, you’re going to get people, I think, starting to say, ‘Has it been moved from critical care to hospice care?’”
“We’re going to look back at what’s happening this year as the good old days,” said Meyer, “because it’s going to get worse for a while.” Loss and damage is a set of issues within the U.N. climate negotiations that deals with making victims whole for climate-driven disasters that can no longer be avoided. It is distinct from adaptation, which seeks to avoid climate damage in the first place through hardening of infrastructure or climate-resilient farming or building methods.
Last year’s summit set up a two-year “dialogue” to discuss what to do next on finance for loss and damage that wasn’t slated to conclude until June 2024. But developing countries note that the issue has been front of mind for them for decades and a formal pillar of the U.N. climate talks since 2013, when the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage was established.
The blowback from Kerry’s remarks was intense and included many allies of the Biden administration. One hundred advocacy groups signed a letter last week asking Kerry to back the creation of a new facility on loss and damage. And in remarks in Washington last week ,he seemed to soften his tone, saying the United States was “very supportive” of aid for climate victims .
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