Summit of Implementation or Postponement?
Summit of Implementation or Postponement?
International and Arab News
After long rounds of negotiations following the Climate Summit in Glasgow last year, world leaders will meet tomorrow in Sharm El-Sheikh at the 27th summit (COP27).
After two days of speeches, in which states present their visions and set their conditions, with leaders setting the stage for negotiations, delegations will continue their discussions, until ministers meet during the last days of the second week to announce the outcome.
These will be compromises that respond to some of what science says, restricted by conflicting interests and what can realistically be implemented.
The summit will be held this year under the slogan "Together For Implementation", which expresses the urgent need to stop talking and begin serious action which corresponds to the urgency of the matter.
The coronavirus and the war in Ukraine are not the only major events since the Glasgow summit that will have huge implications on climate action.
The 2022 summit convenes as unprecedented climate disasters strike the world, with losses mainly hitting developing countries: from the floods that inundated Pakistan, leaving thousands dead and displacing tens of millions who lost shelter and livelihood, not sparing the American continent either, to the drought that left millions facing starvation in the Horn of
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