Column: Why the road to Sharm El-Sheikh runs through Washington, D.C.
In fewer than 30 days, the caravan of climate negotiators, ministers, heads of state, media, industry, and financiers will descend on Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for the 27th round of climate negotiations (COP27). They will gather 30 years after countries first agreed the framework convention on climate change, and seven years after the world decided in Paris to act to limit warming to well below 2 degrees celsius from pre-industrial levels and, in so doing, to leave no one behind.
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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) produced a groundbreaking agreement to create a “loss and damage” fund to help developing nations cope with the impact of climate change.
But the conference, held from Nov. 6 to Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, fell short of a hoped-for agreement to speed reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.