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In both our civil society and developing nations, climate change is altering our daily lives, even if we aren’t cognizant of the ways that climate change is capable of impacting our world.
Luckily, events like COP27 are reserved for in-depth conversations about climate beyond the trivial struggles we're experiencing as a result of rising global temperatures.
Most picture climate change as a problem that has always existed, but climate justice and plans to accelerate action weren't always necessary. Climate change elicits more problems than heat waves or droughts, but threatens life on Earth as whole – which is why global leaders gathered at COP27 to discuss these climate issues.
This article will discuss COP27, or the 27th Conference of the Parties, which is an annual meeting to discuss climate change – and the several issues and challenges discussed regarding climate change
The Conference of Parties, otherwise known as COP, is an annual meeting where global leaders meet and discuss and negotiate how to combat climate change and various climate challenge issues around the world.
Each year at the Conference of Parties, the UNFCCC attends COP, as the UNFCCC is an international treaty aimed to monitor and advise the participating countries on their plans to address climate change. They attend the Conferences of Parties every year alongside members of the Paris Climate Agreement and other global leaders.
💡 COP works by being held once a year to serve as the main decision making body to establish and discern which countries should implement which regulations for the sake of improving the environment.
An example of matters to be discussed each year at the Conference of Parties, such as at COP27, include how the Supreme Court of the United States is continuing to hinder the United State’s progress in reducing carbon and greenhouse gas emissions – such as the recent ruling on behalf of the supreme court for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have all emission reducing tactics approved by legislation before implementation.
👉 This directly slows other countries down as well, and continues to impact the globe’s progress in the fight against climate change – which is precisely why COP is a crucial annual conference for all world leaders to discuss future climate action.
COP27, which took place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt – is important as it discussed the climate actions necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the current energy crisis affecting the European region, and increasing extreme weather events, and how to address these manners for the future.
💡 The blind promises to reduce carbon emissions made by the United States are starting to affect other countries' carbon emission reduction goals, and this is a key point that was addressed and discussed at the summit.
Some other reasons why COP27 is important include:
COP27 will discuss the environmental implications created by global events while still pontificating to all other countries the importance of being aware of how their actions impact the environment and prioritizing climate change goals.
👉 Ultimately, COP27 is important as it will discuss the current actions of nations around the world, and how their individual choices could create a ripple effect and make it challenging for other countries to achieve their own emission reduction goals.
Given the current political statement in the world, many climate change issues were presented at the upcoming COP27 in Egypt – such as the impact created by the world’s largest GHG emitters, the energy crisis in Russia, and how to preserve the original ideals presented in the Paris Agreement.
Here are some of the issues that were discussed at COP27:
👉 The main goal of discussing these issues at COP27 was to facilitate greater transparency and collaboration between wealthier nations to instill stronger sustainability actions to start implementing some of the actions discussed at COP26.
Several things were agreed at COP27, such as the importance of developing a clear mitigation strategy, the need for businesses to be held accountable for their environmental impact, and the need to help developing nations with their own climate plans – as many struggle to afford effective solutions.
Here were the five main takeaways from COP27:
👉 One of the most important things agreed upon at COP27 was for nations to work together to help developing nations, such as with the development of the loss and damage fund.
The results of COP27 were ultimately received as successful, as many dubbed it as “implementation COP” – as several decisions that had been discussed at previous meetings were finally put into action.
There have been 26 previous Conferences of parties, with their importance growing each year as climate change continues to negatively impact all other sectors of life, economy, and sustainability around the planet.
However, it remains difficult to determine if previous COP events have been ultimately successful or unsuccessful in reducing climate change, as each annual meeting is subject to discuss different climate change circumstances.
👉 Regardless, it is important to note that the meeting is overall still a positive action and imperative global meeting to discuss climate change every year – and from our perspective, COP27 was successful as it finally put efforts into place to help developing nations amongst climate change.
In addition to this, the UNFC also deemed COP27 as successful, as “significant progress” was made on for the Adaptation Fund and plans made to expand the mitigation program for future COP events through 2026.
Still, there were some areas for improvement, as COP27 did not successfully accomplish the following:
💡The next Conference of Parties, COP 29, will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11th to November 22nd, 2024.
Overall, COP27 reviewed many of the previous themes discussed over the past few years and began to launch effective measures to tackle these climate challenges – but there is always more to be done, and future COP events will continue to discuss solutions for these global issues associated with climate change.
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