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Representatives from nearly 200 countries, including a delegation from MIT, met in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt at the COP27 UN climate change conference to negotiate a new international climate agreement.
Has COP27 succeeded or failed? It’s not difficult to answer the question. Given that no decisions were made to address the severity of climate impacts, world leaders and their sidekicks came to Egypt to admit defeat. That makes COP27 memorable in its failure to meet any desirable objective.
The good news came ahead of COP27 when issues related to funding arrangements to respond to loss and damage caused by human-induced climate change were incorporated as a sub-agenda under finance-related matters. After having different opinions, debates, and negotiations throughout the two-week-long climate conference in Egypt this year, the parties found a common ground and
The historic fund for loss and damage is the result of many years of labour
Eighty per cent of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change considered gender-sensitive approaches.