OPINION| The African COP must be the implementation COP, right! - The compounding crises of climate change, geopolitical insecurity and energy and food costs will have to be addressed, along with mitigation and adaptation measures
On the morning after her Tutu lecture, Mohammed says that seven years after Paris the promise of a 1.5ºC world — the pivotal target agreed upon in Paris — was “on a lifeline” last year. COP26, in Glasgow in late 2021, was about “saving Paris”. COP27 will be hosted by Egypt next month.
“There is always the context in which we have the COP, right!”, she replies, with the “right” crisply accentuated with an exclamation mark. “COP27 in Egypt will be about the geopolitical crisis that we have — Ukraine, Russia and the West. It will also be about that other shadow crisis between the US and its relations with China.
The UN “is not a person or a country”, Mohammed explains. “It is a very complex family of 193. It is the convening and the forging of consensus, and spotlighting of what must be done, and talking through it. And bringing strange bedfellows together. So if we can’t get the G20 around the table in a normal G20, then we must do so in other spaces — such as the roundtables that the UN secretary general convenes. A lot of it is shuttle diplomacy, behind the scenes. That is the power of the UN.
She refers to “the JETP”, a new piece of jargon to add to a sector that is already jam-packed with acronyms. The world is watchingProgramme very closely. It could be a blueprint for many other places, including Indonesia, which is putting in place its own “country platform” to attract international climate finance and private investment to fund its own transition away from coal.
After all, the original climate finance commitment made as the Copenhagen COP collapsed in 2009, of $100-billion a year by 2020, has still not been reached.
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