With the first Conference of the Parties (COP) to be held on African soil in this decisive decade now firmly in the rearview mirror, Our Burning Planet unpicks the final cover decision text — or Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan — from COP27.
by Ethan van Diemen, Daily MaverickThe Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan — what the world did and didn’t agree to at COP27 by Ethan van Diemen, Daily Maverick November 28, 2022 After delays and disagreement took negotiations well beyond the official end of the conference, COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, ended with an agreement that can be described as a mixed bag of outcomes that have probably teed up COP28 in the United Arab Emirates to be the site of yet more contestation and geostrategic...
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