Egypt’s hosting of the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 is an important chance for world leaders, politicians, experts to discuss the climate crisis at global level, the Rwandan news platform Taarifa said on Wednesday.
Rwanda is currently hosting a week-long inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference at the Kigali Convention Centre, the news platform reported.
IPU standing committees will be engaged in panel discussions on subjects of climate change, war, atrocities against civilians as triggers of global food insecurity, the report added.
Faced with a growing energy crisis, record greenhouse gas concentrations, and increasing extreme weather events, COP27 seeks renewed solidarity between countries, to deliver on the landmark Paris Agreement, for people and the planet, it further said.
Heads of State, ministers and negotiators, along with climate activists, mayors, civil society representatives and CEOs will meet for the largest annual gathering on climate action, which will take place on November 6 and run until November 18, the authors of the report said.
Discussions will deal with reducing greenhouse gas emissions, building resilience and adapting to the inevitable impacts of climate change, to delivering on the commitments to finance climate action in developing countries, according to the newspaper.
The onslaught of climate disasters in 2022 has left little breathing space for the international community to respond. And, as the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows, time is ticking ever more dangerously toward the 1.5C threshold of global warming, it said.
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