Samantha Gross( and Director, Energy Security and Climate InitiativeĬOP27 is taking place in Africa, which brings special focus to the plight of developing nations. Part of Glasgow’s success was how many sectors embraced this approach-from finance to electric power, cars, agriculture and forestry, shipping, aviation, trucking, steel, and cement.Įspecially if global diplomacy fails in Egypt, it will be key to keep momentum on what matters - small groups of actors who invest in creating new facts on the ground. Last year in Glasgow, for example, a global pledge to “phase-out” coal was diluted to a “phase down” at the last minute - much effort is spent on these words, with essentially no practical impact.Ĭooperation is important - it helps create bigger markets for new, clean technologies for example - but that kind of collective action revolves around small coalitions of highly motivated firms and governments. The conference may even end in gridlock with no formal agreement, as it did in 2009.Įven in good years, universal consensus doesn’t generate much in the way of transformational change. This year, with so much else on the global agenda, will probably disappoint too. Rich countries have consistently failed to deliver. Developing nations are rightly demanding that richer nations keep the promises they’ve been making for over a decade, notably the supply of at least $100 billion per year in new climate-related finance, spending a bigger share of it on building resilience to climate impacts, and talking seriously about compensation for poor countries when those impacts result in damage. On the formal agenda is money and other resources. Over the next two weeks, the spotlight will be on global climate diplomacy. Research Associate, Decarbonization Initiative, University of California, San Diego
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Energy Security and Climate Initiative Realistically, Pakistan’s calls for climate justice aren’t likely to receive a full, positive resolution anytime soon - but at least the issue, finally, is on the agenda. The expectations of anything major coming out of the meetings in Egypt in terms of a well-financed loss and damage facility are slim. The most likely framework for climate justice for Pakistan and other vulnerable countries is the concept of loss and damage - which is helpfully on the agenda at COP27 for the first time, and which has started to collect some funding from European capitals, but which still finds resistance from the U.S. It made its case (as did Guterres), but the matter is beyond its control alone. So Pakistan set its sights on COP27 to advocate its case, and sent a solid delegation to Sharm el-Sheikh, headed by its prime minister, foreign minister, and minister for climate change.
But those calls for climate justice - a fraught issue for developed nations - didn’t find widespread traction, other than a forceful advocate in U.N.
It is responsible for less than 1% of global carbon emissions, but is the eighth most climate vulnerable country in the world. Twitter Pakistan asked the world for support for flood relief and recovery, it framed it as a call for climate justice, not humanitarian assistance.
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