Ahead of COP27 beginning on Sunday, GeorgeLeeRTE looks at how the conference works and what are its environmental aims
Over 190 governments and states have signed up and are committed to act. Obviously some are more committed than others.Once a year these parties assemble somewhere in the world at a huge meeting called a"Conference of the Parties" or COP for short.
However, the developing countries have a different take. They say they are already experiencing the impacts of climate change. They want to focus instead on getting financial compensation for the climate change impacts that they did not cause. But 13 years on since then and we are far short of the $100bn funding target. This has fuelled a loss of trust among poorer countries and undermined any sense of solidarity around tackling climate change.So will the real focus of COP27 end up being the need for financial reparations to be paid to developing nations or will it instead turn out to be about helping those developing nations to transition away from fossil fuels. We will have to wait and see.
Despite that, many countries have still not submitted updated commitments or climate action pledges as they were required to do for this COP.Take for instance the 2022 Emissions Gap Report from the United Nations. It speaks about a"closing window" for climate action and says that the international community has fallen far short of what is required.
What this all means is that our planet is on course to reaching tipping points, that will make climate chaos irreversible and temperature rises unavoidable.The United Nations Secretary General says that governments at COP27 need to move us away from the tipping points of climate disaster towards turning points for hope instead.
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