The COP27 ‘Biodiversity Day’ in Sharm el-Sheikh comes just two weeks before a high-level gathering of CBD States Parties in Montreal aimed at reversing biodiversity loss.
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will be held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from November 6 to November 18, 2022.
Four of the Paris Agreement’s key architects, including former UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres, have officially asked world leaders to deliver an “ambitious and transformative” global biodiversity agreement at the upcoming COP15 on biodiversity.
“The climate and nature agendas are inextricably linked. Only by taking urgent action this decade to halt and reverse the loss of nature, while continuing to step up efforts to rapidly decarbonize our economies, can we hope to achieve the promise of the Paris Agreement,” they said in a statement. According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), biodiversity loss is already having a significant impact on regional and global climate change.
“Investing in nature and its infrastructure, such as forests, coral reefs, mangroves, and coastal forests, protects us from high storms.” It not only provides habitat for species, but it also serves as a carbon sink. As a result, it has both a mitigation and an adaptation dimension,” UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen told UN News.
Ellie Goulding, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, launched a new initiative at COP27 to protect these colonial animals-corals. The singer-songwriter called it “insulting” that less than 0.01 per cent of climate finance is dedicated to coral reef conservation.
“I implore the world’s leaders to recognize that coral reefs are one of our greatest collective assets and to become seriously, seriously ambitious and competitive in terms of funding, restoration, and protection,” she said. Last year, at COP26 in Glasgow, significant pledges were made to protect forests.
“Some of them are starting to fall off the belt and into reality.” But there’s a reason Egypt dubbed this the ‘implementation COP,’ because those pledges and promises must be followed through on,” said UNEP chief Andersen.
The European Union also announced a new framework for cooperation on reversing deforestation in Guyana, Mongolia, the Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Zambia last week. Last year, at COP26 in Glasgow, significant pledges were made to protect forests. “Some of them are starting to fall off the belt and into reality.” But there’s a reason Egypt dubbed this the ‘implementation COP,’ because those pledges and promises must be followed through on,” said UNEP chief Andersen.
The European Union also announced last week a new cooperation framework for reversing deforestation in Guyana, Mongolia, the Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Zambia. “He will focus heavily on the Amazon and tropical forests.” “Of course, this is a huge win for climate, biodiversity, and Amazon people,” Ms. Andersen said in response to the Brazilian president’s announcements.
“In just one year, my community was hit by two cyclones, and our [entire] city was completely destroyed.” We no longer want to live like this. Adriana da Silva Maffioletti, a young activist from Brazil, told UN News, “We need a safe space; we need a safe planet.” She went on to say that she hoped world leaders would listen to indigenous leaders rather than exploit them. Concerning negotiations, the Egyptian COP27 Presidency reported on Wednesday that many delegations are, unfortunately, “holding back” a number of negotiation rooms.
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“Under the current circumstances, we would have hoped to see more willingness to cooperate and accommodate than we are seeing in the reports we are receiving from the various negotiating tracks.” I’ll reserve judgment: perhaps some countries and delegations will be more open and accommodating as the clock approaches midnight.”
According to Ambassador Wael Aboulmagd, Special Representative for the COP27 President. Following the news on the last day of the conference. I’ll reserve judgment: perhaps some countries and delegations will be more open and accommodating as the clock approaches midnight.” According to Ambassador Wael Aboulmagd, Special Representative for the COP27 President.
