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View of a COP27 sign on the road leading to the conference area in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh town. – Copyright REUTERS\/Sayed Sheasha<\/p><\/div>\n

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By\u00a0Lottie Limb<\/b><\/a>
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Days away,\u00a0COP27<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is now well and truly dominating the headlines.<\/p>\n

From promises to do better to big issues likely to be discussed at vital negotiations, we’re beginning to get a picture of what the summit could look like.<\/p>\n

This international conference is synonymous with climate change – but what is COP27 exactly, and can it help solve the world\u2019s most urgent environmental problems?<\/p>\n

What is COP27?<\/h2>\n

The UN Climate Change Conference (the official name for climate Conferences of the Parties) has happened every year since 1995. These two-week summits are an important space for world leaders, politicians, experts and a whole host of other people to discuss the climate crisis on a global level.<\/p>\n

The annual conferences bring together those that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – an international environmental treaty addressing climate change – 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

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Every UN member state is a signatory for the UNFCCC, as well as Palestine, the Cook Islands and Niue. The Holy See is also an observer of the treaty. Effectively every nation, country, or state in the world is involved, giving a total of 197 signatory parties.<\/p>\n

Each year representatives from every party come together to discuss action on climate change for the Conference of the Parties or COP. Following COP26 in Glasgow last year, the 27th COP is being hosted in Egypt next month.<\/p>\n

What can we expect at COP27?<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe work ahead is immense. As immense as the climate impacts we are seeing around the world,\u201d UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a recent pre-COP meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cA third of Pakistan flooded. Europe\u2019s hottest summer in 500 years. The Philippines hammered.\u00a0The whole of Cuba in black-out,\u201d he listed.<\/p>\n

Adding that in the US, Hurricane Ian has delivered \u201ca brutal reminder that no country and no economy is immune from the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

The onslaught of climate disasters in 2022 has left little breathing space for the international community to respond. And, as\u00a0the latest report<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows, time is ticking ever more dangerously towards the 1.5C threshold of global warming.<\/p>\n

\u201cCOP27 is critical \u2013 but we have a long way to go,\u201d adds Guterres.<\/p>\n

When is COP27?<\/h2>\n

COP27 is taking place over two weeks, from 6 November to 18 November.<\/p>\n

The fortnight of negotiations will kick off with a World Leader\u2019s Summit on 7 and 8 November. After this, government officials will tackle some of the weightiest issues surrounding climate including finance, decarbonisation, adaptation and agriculture.<\/p>\n

In the second week, big topics including gender, water and biodiversity will be in the spotlight.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udd0b Energy
\ud83d\udcb3 Finance
\ud83e\uddd1\ud83c\udffe\u200d\ud83d\udd2c Science
\ud83c\udf34 Adaptation
\ud83e\udd9c Biodiversity<\/p>\n

These will be some of the key themes at the UN Climate Change Conference #COP27<\/a> in Egypt.<\/p>\n

Check out the full calendar \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffe<\/p>\n

— UN Climate Change (@UNFCCC) October 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n