![]() ![]() “One thing that is very important now in the lead-up to COP27 is that countries come up with new pledges for 2030, new climate targets for 2030, new nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, because those are still very inadequate,” said Mia Moisio, an analyst with the Climate Action Tracker. #BATTLE NATIONS 2020 UPDATE#The Climate Action Tracker, an independent research group’s analysis of government pledges, said most nations have failed to update their action plans, particularly those that see themselves as climate leaders, such as the European Union, Britain and the United States. Egypt’s new NDC, or nationally determined contribution, is still being analysed but it is seen by some as a missed opportunity to go further as the COP27 presidency. Egypt and Australia are just two of a handful of countries that have done so. I don’t think it is impossible.” Nations Slow to Update Action PlansĬountries agreed at COP26 in Glasgow to come back this year with renewed commitments to tackle climate change. “It’s difficult for them to pick up this energy transition agenda at the same time and really shepherd through the political signal that we need from this COP about the continued commitment to energy transition and the fact that it is really a way to address these concurrent crises. The challenge for Egypt is to create a framework for negotiations at Sharm el-Sheikh that demonstrates the green energy transition is a route to beat the current crisis, not an impediment, Scott said in an interview. Talking about the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, she said: “It appears that those at the table have been at pains to express their commitment to making sure any short-term investment in coal or gas to replace Russian sources is exactly that, it is short-term, and that it is linked to their commitment to a long-term transition.” ![]() ![]() Frans Timmermans, vice-president of the European Commission, said in an interview this month that “strife and conflict” over energy prices could make it difficult to reach promised climate goals.Īlex Scott, a climate expert at E3G, a climate think tank in London, said despite the challenges some politicians still saw climate action as a way through some of these other crises. Keeping homes warm this winter has become a major aim of governments. The dangers of climate change have been brought home to many by heat waves in Asia and Europe and predictions that weather extremes will only get worse and more frequent.Įurope, long dependent on Russia for oil and particularly natural gas deliveries, has discovered the dangers of relying on a single source. “This places a formidable responsibility on our shoulders as an international community to ensure that these difficulties will not impact the pace of implementation of our common vision to address climate change, which was reflected in the Paris Agreement, and confirmed last year in Glasgow,” El-Sisi said at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, which brought together representatives from 40 countries to discuss climate protection agreements ahead of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh. (The event is called COP27 because it will be the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to a landmark 1994 United Nations treaty on climate change.)Įgyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi told a meeting in Berlin this month he recognised the challenges posed by the energy and food crises and a lack of funds needed to combat climate change. Russia launched its war with Ukraine in February, oil and natural gas prices have soared, and a food security crisis in much of the developing world has deepened.Īgainst those headwinds, Egypt must find a way to keep the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement alive at COP27. Climate Change Conference (COP26), held in Glasgow last November, the prospects of keeping global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels were just about intact. When climate change ministers and activists left the last U.N. Egypt is facing “an uphill battle” in getting nations to agree the negotiating agenda for the next global climate change conference, COP27, which it will host from November 7 to 18 in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. ![]()
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