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United Nations Conference of Parties 27 (COP27)

December 4, 2022

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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.

Fiona Harvey. “World Still ‘On Brink of Climate Catastrophe’ “

Veterans for Peace v. US Militarism/Fossil Fuels Status Quo.

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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.

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At Sharm el-Sheikh  in Egypt

 

“Catch up: Climate Justice, COP, and an 8 billion milestone.”

United Nations Foundation <mailings@unfoundation.org>  11-23-22	)
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.       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.     JOIN US ON GIVINGTUESDAY     GivingTuesday is a day to unleash generosity and create impact all around the world. Stand with UN Foundation on Tuesday, November 29, and help us continue our work to build a more peaceful, sustainable, fairer world for all. Give >>     FROM OUR EXPERTS...   COP 27 Catch-Up That’s a wrap on COP 27. Get up to speed on the key events and moments you may have missed during two weeks of dialogue, debate, and negotiations in Sharm el-Sheik. Check it out >>    Funding a feminist movement to end GBV From supporting Deaf women in Argentina to ending child marriage in Mali, the WithHer Fund – a joint effort launched by the UN Foundation and the EU’s Spotlight Initiative – is putting resources in the hands of the real experts: grassroots, women-led organizations that are taking on GBV in their communities. Learn more >>   How SDG 17 is driving progress in Phoenix Leaders in Phoenix are building “the world’s most sustainable desert city” by taking on the challenges of climate change, water scarcity, and rapid urban growth — together. This is what SDG 17 looks like in action >>   Learning from COVID-19 – before the next pandemic strikes It was daunting to ensure equitable global access to tests, treatments, and vaccines. Now, after supplying 75% of COVID-19 vaccines in low-income countries, the innovation that launched in 2020 to help save lives is evolving to better meet the world’s changing needs. Read more >>     DONATE |  BLOG |  OUR ISSUES     If you would like to reach out, please don’t hesitate to contact us by responding to this email.     © United Nations Foundation. All rights reserved. 1750 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20006 Phone: 202.887.9040

 

“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...

 

“At COP27, nations agree on loss and damage fund, but at what cost?”  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (11-28-22). Wealthy nations caved to demands to create a fund for climate disaster relief, but some fear not enough was done to limit warming, reports The Guardian's Fiona Harvey. Read more.

 

“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 18^th November 2022.
[If way to the Better there be,/It exacts a full look at the Worst.  Thomas Hardy   --Dick]

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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.

 

Fiona Harvey.  World Still ‘On Brink of Climate Catastrophe’ After Cop27 Deal.  The Guardian (November 20, 2022). 

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

 

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.   View the Stop War Save Climate Report Backs

 

San Francisco, CA   Washington, DC   Boston, MA

 

New York City, NY   Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN   San Diego, CA

 

....and more! Visit our Stop War, Save Climate page to see our actions in other cities and to read the full report backs!   Read the event reports!   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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