One day at the COP - D11
COP27: negotiations are slipping, Antonio Guterres is sounding the charge
The COP27 African pavilion in Sharm el-Sheikh.
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Text by: Géraud Bosman-Delzons Follow
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The end of the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) is looming in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt).
This 5th "African" COP in an international context that is not conducive to making progress in the fight against global warming, which is making its effects felt more and more frequently around the world.
"One day at the COP" delivers a summary of what was said and tied during the day of negotiations, and goes to meet some of its actors.
A final thematic day was reserved for solutions
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With our special correspondents in Sharm el-Sheikh
RFI in special edition this Friday:
This Friday is supposed to mark the last day of this 27th COP.
But the negotiations are likely to spill over into the weekend.
To take stock of the negotiations and understand what is at stake in the home stretch, RFI will be in a special edition.
An edition built around four highlights: the state of the planet, Africa's expectations, finance, the key issue of this COP27, and a final part, full of hope, devoted to solutions to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. To talk about it live from Sharm el-Sheikh, we will receive leading guests including: Laurence Tubiana, "architect" of the Paris Agreement and President of the European Climate Foundation, Jean Jouzel , climatologist and former vice-president of the IPCC, Lee White, Gabonese Minister for
► To follow live from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. in universal time.
IT IS SAID !
France continues to remain a blocker.
said Harjeet Singh, adaptation specialist at the International Climate Action Network, about loss and damage.
AT THE COP THIS THURSDAY
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Antonio Guterres puts pressure
on negotiations.
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The most effective way to restore confidence is to find an ambitious and credible agreement on loss and damage and on financial support for developing countries.
The days of talking about loss and damage financing are over.
We must act.
No one can deny the scale of the losses and damages.
We see it all over the globe, the world is burning and drowning before our eyes.
I urge all parties to show that they see this and understand this.
A clear signal that the voices of those on the front lines of the crisis are finally being heard.
Reflect the scale of the emergency and the scale of the challenge facing so many developing countries.
We cannot continue to deny climate justice to those who have contributed least to the climate crisis and are most affected by it.
It's time to stand together
he said in Egypt, on his return from the G20 in Bali.
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The issue of loss and damage
will always crystallize the expectations of the South at this COP27.
Negotiations are going well.
The Minister in charge of climate change in Vanuatu even declares that they have entered a “fast and furious” period.
This morning, Nabeel Munir, Ambassador of Pakistan to South Korea, chief negotiator for the G77 group (135 countries and China), clarified his group's position on the central issue of this COP: loss and damage.
Losses and damages are not charity.
Loss and damage means climate justice.
You all know what happened in Pakistan a few months ago, our country was under water, 33 million people were affected while Pakistan contributes less than 1.1% of greenhouse gas emissions tight.
If countries are affected, then they must be compensated.
Nabeel Munir warns of the risk of failure of this meeting
♦ Late Wednesday evening, a notable advance was recorded, it relates to the
Santiago network
.
This entity with a technical role, created at COP25 (2019), is in charge in particular of appraising the damage caused by climate change: droughts, floods, sheltering populations... After three years of diplomatic exchanges on its functioning, its financing and its objectives, the States have recorded its creation.
♦ Despite this notable progress, there is still no common line on loss and damage and the creation of a fund.
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A number of countries, even the European Union in general, support the idea,
like Harjeet Singh, of the International Climate Action Network.
But within Europe, states have different positions.
For example, Germany is much more focused on promoting a "global shield" than supporting a new fund, Ireland is looking at the idea of a fund more carefully, Denmark has was a precursor, but now does not agree with the idea of a fund
[part of the 13 billion promised by Copenhagen goes to the Global Shield, editor's note]
, Sweden showed much more resistance than in the past.
And France continues to remain a blocker.
She talks a lot more about early warning systems and supports less developed countries.
And I see that it is positioning itself with force.
France is really blocking at the moment.
The United States is a little open to the idea, they are making progress, but they are not really at the point of agreeing to the establishment of a mechanism here at this COP.
They continue to refer to existing systems.
So there is no single position we are seeing varying degrees of resistance right now.
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♦ Green hydrogen is one of the solutions
often cited as a new source of non-polluting energy.
The European Union and Egypt wish to strengthen their long-term cooperation on energy transition.
They signed this Wednesday in Sharm el-Sheikh a strategic partnership on green hydrogen.
Stated objectives: to activate the Egyptian energy transition, but also to find alternative sources of energy to Russian gas.
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Read here:
COP27: the European Union and Egypt sign a partnership on green hydrogen
BEHIND THE SCENES IN SOUND AND IMAGE
Reduced to a bare minimum in Sharm el-Sheikh, civil society nevertheless met this Thursday for its traditional assembly of peoples in the large plenary hall of the COP.
At the podium, no head of state or diplomat, but the standard bearers of vulnerable populations, minorities, non-governmental organizations.
At the end, a declaration promulgated loud and clear.
We tell you in sound and image.
An assembly composed mainly of young people, indigenous minorities from essential Latin America, and African countries took part in a sit-in at the end of the assembly of peoples, on November 17, 2022. © Géraud Bosman-Delzons /RFI
THEY MAKE THE COP.
Meeting with Tim Davis, COP Media Center Manager
Tim Davis, head of the COP Media Center, here in Sharm el-Sheikh, November 15, 2022. © Géraud Bosman-Delzons/RFI
Central figure of the COP for 17 years, he receives us between two requests and hundreds of emails.
A man filled with admiration for the UN Framework Convention which organizes the climate negotiations, but alone and without the means to fulfill a task which has considerably increased over the COPs.
And for good reason: 3,430 media were accredited to this COP.
Read here.
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