Sunday opens COP27, the 27th annual United Nations climate conference. A hundred heads of state are expected in Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian seaside resort on the Red Sea, to try to agree on solutions and initiate policies to limit global warming.
To understand everything about this essential meeting for the future of our planet, we invite you to watch the video below.
This year’s edition is likely to be marked by the crises our world is going through: war in Ukraine, energy crisis, inflation, food crisis, etc. Why relegate the climate crisis to the background? However, alarming reports have multiplied since the Glasgow Pact in 2021, when nearly 200 countries solemnly pledged to “keep alive” the most ambitious objective of the Paris Agreement, a fundamental treaty concluded in 2015. Namely to contain global warming to 1.5°C compared to the pre-industrial era.
But since then, only 24 countries have raised their commitments and the UN sees “no credible track” to meet this objective. Even if all countries kept their promises, which has never happened before, the world would be on a warming trajectory of 2.4°C by the end of the century. With current policies, a catastrophic +2.8°C is looming. “Pitifully not up to the task”, lambasted the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, a few days before the start of COP27. And to warn: “We are heading towards a global catastrophe. »