COP27, 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC
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COP27, the United Nations climate conference, has drawn to a close in Egypt. The Economist’s environment editor, Catherine Brahic, shares her assessment on the talks’ breakthroughs, the frantic conclusion of the summit and the limitations of the agreement that emerged, in the video published on Nov. 20, 2022, by The Economist, as “COP27: does it go far enough?” below:
More details on COP27, please refer to excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP27,[1] was the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 6 November until 18 November 2022[2] in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. It took place under the presidency of Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry, with more than 90 heads of state and an estimated 35,000 representatives, or delegates, of 190 countries attending. It was the first climate summit held in Africa since 2016.[3]
The conference has been held annually since the first UN climate agreement in 1992. It is used by governments to agree on policies to limit global temperature rises and adapt to impacts associated with climate change.[4] The conference led to the first loss and damage fund being created.[5]
Everything you need to know about COP
Reuters Axel Threfall highlights the major announcements and takes you behind the scenes of the world’s biggest climate conference hosted in Egypt in November 2022, in the video published on Nov. 22, 2022, by Reuters, as “What happened at the COP27 climate summit?“, below:
As nearly 200 countries negotiate at the COP27 climate talks on reducing emissions, there’s a call for greater regulation and transparency around prior and future pledges. A United Nations report targets governments, corporations and banks for what’s called “greenwashing,” or making false or exaggerated claims of progress. Jamie Hannan of Fossil Free Media joined William Brangham to discuss, in the video published on Nov. 16, 2022, by PBS NewsHour, as “Gap between pledges and action sparks criticism at COP 27 climate summit“, below:
Delegates at the UN COP27 climate summit in Egypt say a draft deal includes a goal to limit global warming to 1.5 C, but many issues remain unresolved, in the video published on Nov. 17, 2022, by CBC News, as “COP27 draft climate deal retains 1.5 C warming limit“, below:
We are broadcasting from COP27, the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where poorer countries in the Global South that are weathering the worst effects of the climate crisis are calling for wealthy nations to pay reparations in the form of climate financing. “We need a global plan to phase out fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner,” says Harjeet Singh, head of global political strategy with Climate Action Network and global engagement director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. He adds that the United States is the main impediment to “loss and damage” climate financing. “Money is available, but [the] U.S. has always blocked money going to poor people who are suffering from climate impacts,” he says, in the video published on Nov. 16, 2022, by Democracy Now!, as “Who Should Pay for Climate Crisis? Global South Demands “Loss and Damage” from Wealthy Nations”, below:
A historic deal has been struck at the UN’s COP27 summit in Egypt – in future rich nations will pay poorer countries for the damage and economic losses caused by climate change. It ends almost 30 years of waiting by nations facing huge climate impacts. But developed nations were dissatisfied over progress on cutting fossil fuels. The final deal did not include commitments to “phase down” or reduce their use. Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Justin Rowlatt and Matt McGrath, in the video published on Nov. 20, 2022, by BBC News, as “Climate summit agrees damages fund but fails to curb fossil fuels – BBC News“, below:
Campaigners who believe world leaders are not doing enough to combat climate change are taking matters into their own hands—and suing governments and fossil-fuel companies. But can the climate catastrophe really be resolved in court? In the video published on Nov. 9, 2022, by The Economist, as “COP27: who should pay for a warning planet?” below:
Al Gore gives his speech at the opening of the world leaders summit at the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27). — At COP 27, countries come together to take action towards achieving the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement and the Convention. Building on the outcomes and momentum of COP 26 in Glasgow last year, nations are expected to demonstrate at COP 27 that they are in a new era of implementation by turning their commitments under The Paris Agreement into action. The conference will take place from 6-18 November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Heads of State and Government will attend the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit on 7 and 8 November. A high-level segment primarily attended by Ministers will take place from 15-18 November, in the video published on Nov. 7, 2022, by UN Climate Change, as “Al Gore at the Opening of the #COP27 World Leaders Summit | UN Climate Change“, below:
At the United Nations Climate Conference in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, representatives from 200 countries worked to reach an agreement for a global fund to compensate poorer countries suffering from climate disasters. NBC’s Raf Sanchez reports for Sunday TODAY, in the video published on Nov. 20, 2022, by TODAY, as “COP27 Summit Reaches Climate Loss And Damage Fund Agreement“, below:
Negotiators early Sunday approved a historic deal that would create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution, but an overall larger agreement still was up in the air because of a fight over emission reduction efforts. (Nov. 20), in the video published on Nov. 20, 2022, by Associated Press, as “Historic compensation deal approved at COP27“, below:
The climate emergency and shrinking biodiversity have taught us that we need to change our relationship with nature. People across Europe are looking to find to a new balance with nature in their lives. Sitting back and doing nothing is, we see, no longer an option. How we interact with nature has become an unavoidable topic, and organizations like the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have been continuously calling upon us to rethink humanity’s place in the ecosystem. Our anthropocentric worldview has created countless environmental disasters: Ubiquitous plastic litter, deforestation, soil depreciation due to intensified agriculture, and shrinking biodiversity, in addition to others. Now, the European continent is finally starting to feel the consequences of years of deregulation, as weather anomalies take place ever more frequently and environmental disasters strike with frightening regularity and force. Due to rising temperatures, the Alpine glaciers could vanish entirely as soon as 2040. Again, not taking action is no longer an option. There are initiatives, but their implementation on a Europe-wide level still needs to be prioritized as a key to environmental change. Nature is resilient and can regenerate quickly, if only left to do so. Across Europe, men and women are proving that it is possible to get by with less plastic, to conserve natural resources, to bring nature back to urban spaces, or even to cultivate a primordial forest on the European continent. It’s a paradigm shift we all need to contribute to, in the video published on Nov. 11, 2022, by DW Documentary, as “How is Europe tackling the climate crisis?| DW Documentary“, below:
The capital of Norway is working to be nearly emission-free by 2030. Every year, the city of Oslo calculates how much emission-producing activity will contribute to greenhouse gases, then implements a carbon budget to keep those levels low. Lisa Desjardins speaks with Heidi Sørensen, director of Oslo’s Agency for Climate, to learn more, in the video published on Nov. 20, 2022, by PBS NewsHour, as “Oslo, Norway’s unique approach to curbing carbon emissions” below:
A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to another suddenly and dramatically. This can be a chair falling backwards. Or it can be a major earth system collapsing. The IPCC recently identified 15 potential climate-related tipping points that scientists have grown increasingly worried we are getting close to crossing due to global warming. In this episode of Weathered, we look at 6 of the major candidates, how they are all interconnected and influence each other, and what it would mean if they were triggered. These tipping points or tipping elements are the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the Amazon rainforest, global monsoons, the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) and the earth’s permafrost and coral reefs. The consequences for any of these systems being pushed over the edge would be truly catastrophic and would encompass everything from massive droughts, loss of biodiversity, increased flooding, heat waves, large scale climate migration, food shortages, and much more. Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare, in the video published on Sep 6, 2022, by PBS Erra, as “What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit?” below:
In the video published on Nov. 21, 2022, by Global Commons Alliance, as “Earth Commission: New Science On Dangerous Tipping Points“, below:
Massive floods have been sweeping the globe lately. British Columbia flood of 2021, Pakistan flood of 2022, Hurricane Ian, New Zealand, Las Vegas, Kentucky, Yellowstone National Park flood, and floods in California are all recent examples of such tragic flooding. And many are blaming climate change. But at the same time, we’re also seeing record lows in rivers and reservoirs all around the world. So what’s really going on here? Is the answer Hadley Cells changing? Is it the moisture capacity of the atmosphere? In this episode, we try to get to the bottom of this paradox and unravel the role that climate change is truly playing in our increasingly erratic weather and precipitation patterns. We also look at large climatological elements like atmospheric rivers and Hadley cells to see the roles they are playing in these changes. And we look back on the worst flood to ever hit the United States to see what we can learn about our future – the Great Flood of 1862 that submerged much of California, at one point creating a 500 mile lake between Bakersfield and Redding. The California Mega Flood and of course the Las Vegas Flood in 2022. Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare, in the video published on Nov. 8, 2022, by PBS Terra, as “This Is Why Worse Droughts Mean WAY Worse Floods“, below:
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