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United Nations Conference of Parties 27 (COP27)
December 4, 2022
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace,
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2022 United Nations Climate Change Conferences
27th Conference of the Parties (COP27)
CONTENTS UN COP 27
Original Announcement:
COP 27 – UN Foundation Climate Change Conference #27.
UN Foundation. “Climate Justice, COP, and an 8 billion milestone.”
OMNI Center. Achievement,
US Role.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Loss and Damage Fund Achieved, but
not stopping warming.
Vijay Prashad. Loss and
Damage Fund achieved, little else.
George Monbiot. A bleak assessment. The Governments chose to do nothing that
could change our catastrophic trajectory.
Bill McKibben in The New
Yorker. The conference was largely a
search for
cash.
COP27: Corporate courts versus developing world.
Veterans for Peace v. US Militarism/Fossil Fuels
Status Quo.
TEXTS
Original Announcement
COP 27 – UNFoundation Climate
Change Conference #27. https://unfccc.int ›
event › cop-27 In November 2022, the Government of the
Arab Republic of Egypt will host the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the UNFCCC (COP 27), with a view to
build...
COP27 – Home https://cop27.eg The
meeting comprises UNFCCC COP 27,
The Kyoto Protocol CMP 17, and the Paris Agreement
CMA 4, together with SB57. Provisional Agenda. Presidency Action Agenda.
People also ask:
What is COP27 stand for?
Where is COP27?
What is COP27 and why is it important?
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At Sharm el-Sheikh
in Egypt
“Catch up: Climate Justice, COP, and an 8 billion milestone.”
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The world has
reached a major milestone: the UN reported last week that the global
population hit the 8 billion mark. That's the number of people
who now call this planet home, and 8 billion lives that are at risk
from climate change and its catastrophic impacts. Those in poor,
climate-vulnerable countries are hit the hardest.
"The voices
of those on the frontlines of the climate crisis must be heard,"
stressed United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. Speaking from Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt at the
conclusion of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 27) he affirmed,
"This COP has taken an important step toward justice."
After marathon negotiations, COP 27 concluded with long-sought agreement on a fund to
help developing nations with loss and damage inflicted by a crisis they
did little to cause. While the deal was historic, efforts to keep
polluters in check and the goals of the Paris Agreement within reach
fell short – signaling that it will take new levels of ambition to
ensure a liveable future for all 8 billion of us, and future
generations.
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Also part of
that 8 billion? Girls and women who continue to experience one of the
most egregious human rights violations on the planet: gender-based
violence (GBV).
1 in 3 women
will experience GBV in their lifetime, and the UN is saying: The time
is now to unite, stand up and speak out — during the upcoming 16 Days of Activism — and
all year long.
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FROM OUR EXPERTS...
COP 27 Catch-Up
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“Was COP27 A Failure? In
Sharm Al Sheik Egypt.” OMNI Center
(11-30-22). https://mailchi.mp/coveringclimatenow/what-were-reading-about-cop27-outcomes?e=7da2920078
A short run-down of
the results of COP 27. It was not a raging success, but a few positive things
came from it.
A note on the role the
US plays in these meetings... the primary goal of many protesters was a fund
for loss and damage. That was accomplished when Biden withdrew resistance to
the fund. It's never China. What a ruse.
Covering Climate Now on COP 27...
“In Malay, orangutans means ‘people of the forest’, but those forests are
disappearing: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2022).” Vijay
Prashad. Mronline.org (11-27-22).
The dust has settled at the resorts in Sharm
el-Shaikh, Egypt, as delegates of countries and corporations leave the 27th
Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change. The only advance made in the final agreement was for the
creation of a ‘loss and damage fund’ for ‘vulnerable countries’.
GEORGE
MONBIOT. “How About Never?” Posted on23rd November 2022. Orig. published in the Guardian 18th November 2022.
[If way to the Better there be,/It exacts a full look at
the Worst. Thomas Hardy --Dick]
Share27
Powerful governments
have no intention of preventing climate breakdown.
The chances of any one
person being born were calculated by the life coach Dr Ali Binazir. He
multiplied the probability of your parents meeting, mating and conceiving by
the chances of a particular sperm and egg fusing; of all your human and hominid
ancestors reaching reproductive age; and of all them successfully reproducing.
He arrived at a figure of one in 10 to the power of 2,640,000. In other words,
a 10 followed by 2.6m zeros. It’s an unimaginable, miraculous number. Yet here
we are.
The chances of being
alive right now, as a member of one of the first generations to know the path
it is on, and one of the last that can change it, must add several more zeros
to this crazy number. The chances of being the president or prime minister of
your nation at this critical moment … well you get the idea.
So how have heads of
government chosen to use this miracle? To extend our time on Earth, earning the
gratitude of all the improbable humans of the future? No. They have chosen to
do nothing. Nothing that has a realistic chance, in this contest of
probabilities, of changing our trajectory. They had a choice at the Cop27
meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh of defending the habitable planet or appeasing their
sponsors. They went with the sponsors.
We know how way leads
on to way, how the power amassed through corrupt decisions in previous
generations drives the corrupt decisions of our time. We know that the licence
granted to fossil fuel companies by 50 years of failure has enabled them to
make stupendous profits – $2.8bn a day on average across that entire period – and that they need
invest only a fraction of this money in politics to buy every politician and
every political decision they want.
We know that the
easiest way for a politician to secure power is to appease those who already
possess it, those whose power transcends elections: the oil barons, the media
barons, the corporations and financial markets. We know that this power
appoints the worst possible people at the worst possible time. We know how, as
elderly billionaires seek to grab ever more of the life that slips from them,
they create a death cult.
Fifty years, you ask?
Yes, the first international summit that claimed to address the
environmental crisis took place in 1972. A handful of powerful nations,
including the UK and US, convened what their secret minutes called an “informal
and confidential” body at that summit, whose purpose, the notes show, was to
ensure poorer countries did not get what they wanted, and that no international standards would be agreed on pollution or environmental quality.
They learned an
important lesson there. You make the threats to your sponsors go away by
nodding and smiling, saying the right things in public, then blocking effective
measures behind closed doors. When they arrived at Cop27 this year, they had no
intention even of paying the money they had promised to poorer nations to help them adapt –
if such a thing is possible – to climate breakdown, let alone seeking to
prevent that breakdown from happening.
So here we are, after
50 years of engineered failure, with not one of the 40 markers of climate
action on track to meet the targets governments have agreed. In the first
nine months of this year, the seven biggest private sector oil companies made
around $150bn in profits. Yet governments continue to supplement this
loot by granting oil and gas companies $64bn a year in public subsidies.
There are no longer
any feasible means of preventing more than 1.5C of global heating if new oil and gas fields are developed.
Yet fossil-fuel companies, with the encouragement of the governments that
either own or license them, are planning a major investment surge between 2023 and 2025. The biggest
planned expansions, by a long way, are in the US. The soft facts – the vague
and unsecured promises at Sharm el-Sheikh about curbing consumption – count for
nothing against the hard facts of extending production.
We no longer need to
speculate about where this path might lead: we have stepped through the gates.
The floods in Pakistan that displaced 33 million people and washed away 3 million acres of soil
followed a crop-shrivelling heatwave. This is the whipsaw effect predicted in
scientific papers: of moderate weather giving way to a violent cycle of extremes. It’s hard to see how the country will ever
recover from the economic shocks of these disasters: as it starts to pick
itself up, it’s likely to be knocked down by another one. China this year,
though this was sparsely reported in the western media, suffered not only the
greatest heatwave in its instrumental record, but the greatest heat anomaly ever recorded anywhere. The devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, now in its fifth
year, offers a glimpse of what “uninhabitable” may look like.
The rich world’s
governments arrived at the conference in Egypt saying “it’s now or never”. They
left saying “how about never?”. We sail through every target and objective, red line and
promised restraint towards a future in which the possibility of anyone’s
existence starts to dwindle towards zero. Every life is a madly improbable
gift. For how much longer will we sit and watch while our governments throw it
all away?
www.monbiot.com, https://www.monbiot.com/2022/11/23/how-about-never/
POSTED IN CLIMATE BREAKDOWN
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”Top of Form
Bill McKibben. “How To Pay for Climate Justice
When Polluters Have All the Money.”
The New Yorker (November
19, 2022).
The COP27 climate conference, in
Egypt, was in large part a global search for cash.
“COP27: Corporate courts versus developing world.”
Editor. Mronline.org
(11-21-22).
As rich countries move away from
dispute-settlement mechanisms that give corporations power to block environmental
protections, Manuel Pérez-Rocha says they keep imposing them on developing
countries through trade pacts.
Experts say biggest economies must
pledge more cuts to carbon emissions but hail agreement to set up loss and
damage fund.
SARAH
KAPLAN, TIMOTHY PUKO AND EVAN HALPER. “Climate summit’s results mixed.” Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette (Nov 21, 2022). Climate summit’s results mixed Progress made on current problems, but not prevention. Read more... (Sent to me by Pat Snyder.)
Veterans for Peace v. US
Fossil Fuels Status Quo
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Militarism Fuels Climate Crisis!
Earlier this month,
world leaders convened in Egypt for the UN Climate Change Conference
(COP27) to make speeches about the importance of addressing the climate
crisis. We knew the US delegation would show up prepared to leverage its
economic, political, and military might to push forward an agenda that
preserves the military industrial complex and the interests of US
corporations.
As a
counterweight, VFP members and allies planned actions on the ground in
many US cities during these meetings, undermining the hard-nosed and
regressive positions of the United States’ formal delegation to the
summit. We called on the US Government to live up to its rhetoric by
disclosing the carbon impacts of military operations and taking
meaningful action to address the climate crisis. We will continue to
take bold direct actions in cities across the US until we can convince
the public of the link between militarism and the climate crisis.
View the full Stop War, Save Climate
photo album here or click on any of the photos below.
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The above actions were made possible in part by support from
the Climate Emergency Fund, which provides funding for climate
activists on the vanguard of the climate emergency movement. We are
grateful for their support!
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