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3:20 p.m. : “At this stage, the Sharm El-Sheikh text is a simple copy of the Glasgow text”. Vice-president of the NGO Global Citizen, Friederike Röder considers the draft final text currently on the table largely insufficient: postponement of concrete decisions on losses and damages until next year, no deadline on the 100 billion still missing for adaptation and mitigation assistance, no progress on phasing out fossil fuels.
2:36 p.m. : An agreement on loss and damage (i.e. reparations for climate change damage paid by rich countries for poor and exposed countries) seems within reach at COP27. On TwitterPakistan’s climate minister says a proposal is on the table, which is not “no perfect” but“meets the basic demands of developing countries”. A European diplomatic source assures AFP, on condition of anonymity, that an agreement has been reached.
2:25 p.m. : Remember that the COP is an annual event. The Prime Minister of Australia declared this morning that his country was a candidate for the organization of COP31 in 2026. We already know that the summit will be held next year in the United Arab Emirates. Several European countries hope to host COP29 and Brazil COP30.
2:20 p.m. : A draft of the final text was communicated about an hour ago to the countries gathered at COP27, explains on franceinfo Aurore Mathieu, head of international policies within the Climate Action Network.
3:04 p.m. : Let’s recall the main information of this Saturday:
Last day under high tension at COP27: the number 2 of the European Commission threatens not to sign the final agreement of the summit, fearing that it will abandon the objective of limiting global warming to 1.5°C at the end of end of the century. The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, also expressed her concern.
• On the eve of the opening of a highly criticized World Cup, the president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, denounced them “moral lessons” with regard to Qatar.
• Demonstrations are expected in several cities in France to denounce the dysfunctions of justice in terms of fight against gender-based and sexual violence.
12:51 p.m. : “It’s a bit of a lost year between COP26 and COP27. The States had undertaken to return before this summit with new objectives. In reality, there are a little less than thirty States which did before the COP and it only reduced projected emissions by 1% by 2030.”
While the outcome of the negotiations remains very uncertain, a manager of the NGO Care France is already drawing up a bitter assessment of this COP27 on franceinfo. “The next few hours are going to be absolutely crucial”the States having to make known their response to the proposed text of the Egyptian presidency of the summit, affirms Fanny Petitbon.
3:04 p.m. : Let’s take stock of the main news of this Saturday:
Last day under high tension at COP27: the number 2 of the European Commission threatens not to sign the final agreement of the summit, fearing that it will abandon the objective of limiting global warming to 1.5°C at the end of end of the century. The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, also expressed her concern.
• On the eve of the opening of a highly criticized World Cup, the president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, denounced them “moral lessons” with regard to Qatar.
• Demonstrations are expected in several cities in France to denounce the dysfunctions of justice in terms of fight against gender-based and sexual violence.
11:41 a.m. : Will the Sharm el-Sheikh summit succeed? In off mode, an observer observes a certain “opacity” and “high level of mistrust” in these last hours of negotiation. If the countries fail to agree on a final declaration, the COP would be suspended and would resume in Bonn (Germany) in June, in the form of a COP27 bis. This had already happened in 2001 with COP6 bis.
3:28 p.m. : The “large majority” countries finds the proposals “balanced”defends for his part the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Choukri, who chairs this summit. “The world is watching us. Time is not on our side. The parties [les pays] must rise to the occasion.”
10:06 : | At this time, still no satisfactory text and up to the climatic emergencies. This COP cannot be that of renunciation. The 1.5°C global warming target must not die in Sharm el-Sheikh.
10:06 : On Twitter, the Minister for Energy Transition shares the concern expressed a few minutes ago by the Vice-President of the European Commission about the final agreement of this COP27. It is she who represents France in Sharm El-Sheikh.
3:08 p.m. : “This COP cannot be that of renunciation”warns the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
3:26 p.m. : “Not only are the countries responsible for the pollution of the planet not implementing the commitments made but, in addition, they are engaging in the debate on the elimination of fossil fuels for countries which have no other sources of energy. .”
The President of Senegal, Macky Sall, does not necessarily have the same objectives as the EU in this COP27, but he too is disappointed with the turn taken by the negotiations, he explains on franceinfo. Defending the cause of developing countries, he argues for a mechanism to compensate for “loss and damage”, a term that we explained to you at the beginning of the summit.
3:24 p.m. : “Rather disagree than a bad agreement”warns Frans Timmermans, number 2 of the executive of the European Union. “We are concerned about some of the things we have seen and heard over the past 12 hours”, he has just told journalists in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt). He hopes to keep “urge” the objective, set in the Paris agreement, of limiting global warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century.
3:09 p.m. : The Vice-President of the European Commission says he is “very worried” of the state of the negotiations on the last day of the climate summit.
3:21 p.m. : Let’s start by recalling the main news of the last few hours:
The climate summit talks have (theoretically) entered their last day, after being protracted in search of an agreement.
#UKRAINE Ukraine yesterday asked for help from the European Union after nearly half of its energy infrastructure was destroyed by Russian forces. Moscow, for its part, accuses Ukrainian soldiers of “war crime”.
• Kim Jong-un threatened to use the atomic bomb in the event of a nuclear attack against North Korea, while his country fired a new intercontinental missile.