Cop27: A warming world in crisis
World leaders convening in Egypt for the annual global climate conference will confront the increasingly urgent global warming problem while battered by economic and geopolitical storms.
Michelle Quah
What’s Cop27?
“Cop” refers to the annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These meetings address progress on global efforts to battle climate change, and are attended by heads of state, ministers, climate activists, civil society representatives and business leaders. Cop27, which will be the 27th such conference, will be held from Nov 6 to 18 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Why it matters
The conference is arguably the highest-level gathering focused on combatting climate change, and throws a spotlight on governments’ commitments on this front.
Such commitments are coming under ever-greater scrutiny as the world’s climate crisis grows more dire. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body for assessing the science related to climate change, said earlier this year that the world is headed towards unavoidable multiple climate hazards over the next two decades and stressed the necessity of urgent action.
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