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COP27 PRESIDENCY VISION
FOR UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE
CHANGE CONFERENCE
The COP27 agenda emphasizes action across the board on climate change by continuing to reduce emissions and address
climate change adaptation aiming at saving lives and livelihoods.
It reiterates a just and managed transition to a more sustainable economy to ensure no one is left behind.
Its vision is for an implementation COP that focuses on how the world pays for the estimated $USD125 trillion bill to
tackle climate change by 2050 (according to the IEA).
Egypt’s COP27 Presidency set out its vision for the 2022 United extremely adversarial trajectory. We need to find creative
Nations Climate Change Conference. The aim is to make ways to come up with finance.
COP27 an “implementation COP†by urging action across prior
agreements through all areas of climate change need, with Most importantly we need all stakeholders on board…
a focus on protecting people from the immediate impacts of if we are to save lives and livelihoods and if we are to
climate change, ensuring no one is left behind. transform global economies from, an unsustainable
model that's been followed for more than two centuries,
Speaking from Cairo, on 28 September, about the vision for to a sustainable low emission one that takes care of
COP27, H.E. Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian Minister of Foreign impoverished people and those suffering from the
negative impacts of climate change.
"Affairs and COP27 President-Designate, said:
We must accelerate climate action on all fronts including The focus on a just and managed transition to a new sustainable
mitigation, adaptation and finance in addition to adopting economic model was highlighted as critical to progress at COP27.
more ambitious mitigation measures to keep the 1.5c The Paris Agreement recognised that nations have combined but
within reach. There can be no room for delay in the differentiated responsibilities due to their historical greenhouse
fulfilment of climate pledges or backtracking on hard gas emissions. This puts the responsibility on developed nations
earned gains in the global fight against climate change. to help developing nations with appropriate finance to make the
We must work together for implementation. We need to transition to a more sustainable economy over time. The COP27
act, and act now, to save lives and livelihoods. Presidency points to the need to first meet current financial
commitments, with the $100 billion finance goal and the doubling
Speaking at the COP27 Global Press Briefing, of global adaptation finance and take global ambition on finance
Amb. Wael Aboulmagd, Special Representative of the COP27 further if we are to deliver effective climate action.
"President, said: To drive home its vision, the COP27 Presidency launched “Act
We cannot underplay the threat that humanity is facing Nowâ€, a film which highlights the real and present danger
due to climate change; 4% of global economic output of climate change, its man-made origins and its man-made
could be lost by 2050 due to climate change and 5 million solutions. It aims to encourage global decision makers to avoid
people die every year because of temperature extremes… backtracking and to follow through on pledges by impressing on
which will only get worse as temperatures increase. The them the need to act now, “because there is no extra time†and
cross-cutting issue is always going to be finance. How come together for implementation at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh.
are we going to pay for this? We cannot continue along an
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