FOCUS – After a disappointing first week, Egypt still hopes to reach an ambitious agreement.
Special envoy to Sharm El-Sheikh
At the end of the first week of COP27, the annual summit of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which is due to continue until November 17, the record is poor. “The negotiations have made little progress”, assures Lola Vallejo, head of the climate program at IDDRI (Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations). But Sameh Choukri, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, who is presiding over COP27, wants to take matters into his own hands. “Time is not on our side. The world is watching us. Let’s come together and act now,” declared the President of COP27 on Monday morning when announcing the program for the week. There is a lot of work and all the subjects are still on the table.
Limiting the increase in global warming to +1.5°C at the end of the century, the most ambitious objective of the Paris agreement, could even be removed from the final text. Major oil-producing countries in the Gulf…
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