Flop 27: UN climate summit heading for geopolitical hurricane – Ukraine war has set the stage for backsliding
The war in Ukraine has divided nations over what some saw as a fight between Russian and Western interests, and supercharged an energy crisis that risks shredding COP26’s most concrete achievement: a global consensus to cut down on coal...rampant energy price inflation has combined with a protracted energy crunch to revive demand for coal and put subsidies for fuel of any kind back on political agendas. ...
“COP27 is to be convened while the international community is facing a financial and debt crisis, an energy-prices crisis, a food crisis, and on top of them the climate crises,” says Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry, who’s also the conference’s president. “In light of the current geopolitical situation, it seems that transition will take longer than anticipated.”
By: Admin - Climate DepotOctober 24, 2022 8:14 AM
Flop 27: Global climate summit is heading for a geopolitical hurricane
Bloomberg, 23 October 2022
The energy crunch intensified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has set the stage for backsliding.
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