The international climate conference opens Sunday for two weeks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
At least 101 heads of state and government will speak in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), for COP27, the twenty-seventh annual meeting organized under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, November 6-18. “As the best available science indicates, some impacts of climate change are now irreversible and require concerted global solidarity and action, not empty rhetoric.”warns Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt and President of COP27.
This year, meteorological disasters follow one another at an unprecedented rate. Repeated droughts and heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere, from China to the United States, via Europe and North Africa since the spring, record forest fires in many countries, minimum low water level of the Danube, of the Loire and the Rhine this summer, historic melting of glaciers in Europe, rising water levels which is accelerating, a monsoon…
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