COP 27
COP27 was a historic event where world leaders come together to discuss and form solutions to combat climate change. Climate change is an important issue that needs to be addressed by global ambassadors and everyday citizens
Every year the United Nations holds a COP, Climate Change Convection, with this year being credited as COP27.
COP27 closed on November 20th, 2022, and has made many strides of breakthrough agreements, including an agreement to provide “loss and damage” funding for the hardest hit countries of climate disasters.
“This outcome moves us forward,” said Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary. “We have determined a way forward on a decades-long conversation on funding for loss and damage – deliberating over how we address the impacts on communities whose lives and livelihoods have been ruined by the very worst impacts of climate change.”
This agreement, known as the Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan, is important for the world and countries to transform to a low-carbon economy. This plan will help lessen our reliance on oil and carbon, and will transform global alternative energy.
This plan has a goal of setting up these funds for countries hardest hit by climate change in 2024, creating a hefty goal for the next year/year and a half to come.
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