This year’s United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference or COP27 will take place from 6 to 18 November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Hosted through Egypt, COP27 hopes to be the “turning point where the world got here in combination and demonstrated the political will needed to tackle the climate challenge through concerted, collaborative and impactful action. “
Ahead of the climate talks, UN agencies issued reports on the state of Earth’s climate. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said a 43% relief in emissions through 2030 is needed to restrict warming to 1. 5°C above pre-industrial. Temperatures. The World Meteorological Organization said increases in atmospheric concentration of the 3 greenhouse fuels (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) are now reaching new record levels. Meanwhile, the United Nations Environment Program said the government promises “woefully inadequate” to reduce greenhouse fuel emissions are on track for an average temperature increase of 2. 8°C this century.
For the Philippines, COP27 follows the violent tropical typhoon Paeng (Nalgae), which hit the entire country and killed more than a hundred people in its path. As one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, the stakes at COP27 for the Philippines are high, specifically when it comes to loss and damage, mitigation and adaptation, and climate finance.
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US President Joe Biden raised the human rights factor at an assembly on Friday (November 11) with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the COP27 weather summit, the White House said.
“The President stresses the importance of human rights and respect for basic freedoms,” the White House said in a statement. Biden and Sisi reaffirmed their commitment to addressing the climate crisis and discussed a variety of issues, adding the war in Ukraine and food security. , he said.
A U. S. -led initiative The U. S. and UAE efforts to make agriculture climate-friendly, replace and reduce emissions through innovation have doubled investment commitments to $8 billion and expanded their reach, it said Friday (Nov. 11).
The Agricultural Innovation for Climate (AIM for Climate) project launched a year ago and aims to drive innovation in “climate-smart” agriculture globally through 2025, as the world races to keep global warming below 1. 5 degrees Celsius.
At the COP27 climate replacement talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, he announced commitments of $7 billion in investments from 42 governments and $1 billion in innovation projects for smallholder farmers in emerging economies, new technologies, agroecology and methane reduction.
Agriculture is on the front lines of extreme weather events, but it is also a major contributor to warming emissions.
The IAM will help farmers deal with demanding situations that have become more apparent this year, the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture said. US Secretary of State Thomas Vilsack: productivity losses similar to weather substitution and higher input prices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
“I think there’s an opportunity here for us, specifically for the U. S. “But for large-scale agriculture, to tell smallholder farmers about the wisdom and data we’re getting about more effective use, more accurate use of fertilizers and other inputs that can lower prices for farmers and also without compromising productivity,” Vilsack told Reuters in a call.
Agriculture can succeed at net 0 “a little faster than some of the other industries that are commonly communicated about when we talk about climate,” he said.
“I think only massive carbon sequestration capacity, massive opportunities to decrease methane, massive opportunities to convert agricultural waste into a variety of products that would particularly decrease the greenhouse fuel footprint of agricultural production. “
Vilsack said the UAE, which imports around 80% of its food and will host the COP28 climate talks in 2023, needs to stimulate production in food-exporting countries and empower them through innovation.
Protesters stood and held a speech by U. S. President Joe Biden at COP27 on Friday, Nov. 11, a Reuters witness said in the room where Biden spoke.
Biden’s speech was not interrupted and security guards approached the protesters’ organization to remove their posters.