COP27. Un realistico bilancio

L’analisi di Zainab Usman per Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The UN’s twenty-seventh Conference of Parties at the sunny resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, was branded as the “implementation COP.” This was the climate summit that would finally fulfill previous financial pledges for investing in renewable energy, building infrastructure to withstand extreme weather events, responding to climate disasters, and funding other such aspects of climate action. The summit’s Egyptian presidency also framed the meeting as an “Africa COP,” to emphasize that implementation is most relevant to Africa (and other parts of the Global South, such as Pakistan) that are extremely vulnerable to global warming, despite contributing little to the greenhouse gases driving climate change. But upon the meeting’s conclusion, some bright spots emerged, even though more needs to be done to meet goals of implementation.

As Financial Pledges Trickle In, Did COP27 Meet Its Goal of Implementation? – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace