Top 3 highlights of first week of COP 27
The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is being held in Egypt until 18 November 2022. Let’s have a summary on the issues have been discussed in COP27.
- The Sharm el-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda
- COP27 President Shoukry announced ‘Sharm el-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda’.
- The first comprehensive global plan to rally both State and non-State actors behind a shared set of 30 Adaptation Outcomes that are required by 2030 across food and agriculture, water and nature, oceans and coastal, human settlements and infrastructure systems.
- For instance, one outcome for food and agriculture is Climate resilient, sustainable agriculture increases yields by 17% and reduces farm level GHG emissions by 21%, without expansion of the agricultural frontier.
- To protect four billion people living in the most vulnerable communities.
- Latest Climate Change Research
- Leading global experts from natural and social sciences presented essential insights on climate change since 2021.
- The potential to adapt to climate change is not limitless, e.g. “hard” limits including extreme heat intolerable to the human body and rising sea levels capable of submerging coastal communities.
- Over 3 billion people will inhabit “vulnerability hotspots” by 2050.
- Persistent dependence on fossil fuels exacerbates major vulnerabilities, notably for energy and food security.
- Launch of the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP)
- The partnership aims to boost action to implement a commitment made at COP26 to halt forest loss and land degradation by 2030.
- 27 countries including the UK and the EU, have already joined the partnership and are committed to leading by example on one or more of the FCLP’s action areas.
- FCLP’s action areas include mobilizing public and donor finance to support implementation, supporting Indigenous People’s and local communities’ initiatives, and incentivizing the conservation of high-integrity forests.
