COP27

Of Francesco Panié* They account for a third of global emissions, but remain systematically excluded from international climate policies.Since this year, however, food systems and agriculture have finally made inroads in the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.At COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh there was a lot of talk about these issues, especially in the new dedicated pavilion, set up by FAO and managed together with the CGIAR network of research centers and the Rockefeller Foundation. Just the FAO he's pushing to be more involved in discussions on how to integrate the agriculture and food sector into national plans that should ground the goals included in the 2015 Paris Agreement.For now it has only succeeded to a small extent:this is demonstrated by the fact that there have been no advances on the part of the working group on agriculture born in 2017 at COP 23 in Bonn.His mandate was renewed for four years at the end of the Eg...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. COP 27 ended just over a week ago leaving jarring sensations:if on the one hand we can celebrate a success in the thirty-year battle for climate finance, on the other we must point out yet another failure that takes us further away from the objective of the Paris Agreement to contain global warming to within 1.5°C.Giving up permanently on the 1.5°C climate target would be a nice gift to carbon advocates, he said the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in an interview with Guardian. We will see what the effects of the decisions (not) taken will be in the years to come. The talks highlighted the central role of nature actions in tackling the climate crisis.In a special the World Economic Forum analyzed the progress made after the COP in Egypt. 1) Call for structural reform of nature and climate finance In addition to loss and damage financing, much atte...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The G20 in Indonesia could also have important repercussions on the climate agenda and give a small jolt to the United Nations Climate Conference underway in Egypt.On November 14, on the eve of the G20 in Indonesia, US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met.It is the first direct contact after the congress in China and the mid-term elections in the United States.The two leaders have taken steps towards reopening the climate dialogue, meeting the demands of US special climate envoy John Kerry, who just three weeks ago he had urged the two countries to resume negotiations. “The world expects, I think, that China and the United States will play a key role in addressing global challenges, from climate change to food insecurity, and that they will be able to work together.The United States stands ready to do just that, to work with you, if that is your desire,&rdq...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The world is racing "on the highway that leads straight to climate hell with its foot pressed on the accelerator". He didn't mince words the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on the opening day of the United Nations Climate Conference which is being held this year in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to define the gravity of the situation facing the planet and give meaning the urgency of the actions to be taken.Looming in the background are the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, the rising cost of living and growing global tensions. “We need a climate solidarity pact between developed and emerging economies:either they work together to make a historic deal that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and put the world on a low-carbon path, or we will have failure, which will mean climate collapse and catastrophe,” Guterres added.“It is...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels will increase by less than 1% this year (much less than the nearly 4% increase seen last year) thanks to the rapid growth of renewable energy and electric vehicles that has outpaced the demand for coal.That's it emerges from one new analysis of the International Energy Agency (IEA), according to which the increase of almost 300 million tonnes (MtCO2) was much smaller than the increase of almost 2 billion tonnes expected for 2021. However, demand for oil is expected to grow more than any other fossil fuel in 2022, with an increase in CO2 emissions of around 180 million tonnes, largely driven by the transport sector, after the easing of restrictions related to the pandemic.The aviation sector contributes around three-quarters of the increase in emissions from oil use, particularly due to increased international air travel, although avi...