More than 35,000 delegates are expected to attend the event in Egypt. For a year in which no major decisions are expected, it’s a substantial gathering.
over the question of who should pay the costs of global warming are expected to mark this conference, known as COP27.The conference officially runs from November 6 through November 18. But climate negotiations are famously contentious, so expect it to go into overtime.The meetings are being held at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort town on the Red Sea coast. There are two main sites for the event: the Blue Zone and the Green Zone.
The 197 parties, including the United States, ratified the treaty to address “dangerous human interference with the climate system” and stabilise levels of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. This is the first climate summit in Africa since 2016. Many diplomats hoped it would be an “African COP” in focus as well as location, given that African nations face some of the worst effects of climate change.More than 35,000 delegates are expected to attend the event, including US President Joe Biden and, according to the UN climate body. That is smaller than last year’s summit in Glasgow, which brought together 120 world leaders and more than 40,000 registered participants.
The US Senate unanimously opposed it and so did then-president George Bush snr, setting in motion nearly two decades of wrangling over which nations had the most responsibility for tackling climate change. In 2015, the Obama administration broke the impasse by leading nearly 200 countries to sign the groundbreaking. For the first time, rich and poor countries agreed to act, albeit at different paces, to tackle climate change.
It also noted that rich countries have failed to meet a now decade-old promise to help deliver $US100 billion annually by 2020, and urged them to “at least double” finance for adaptation by 2025.dozens of agreements were struck by countries and corporations Loss and damage refers to the climate effects that countries are experiencing right now, but to which they cannot adapt; particularly poor, developing nations that have contributed the least to global warming.
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