Even though winter appears to be looming swiftly, the Egyptian weather is pleasantly favourable. Days are usually hot with balmy evenings. November is said to be the start of winter and the temperatures cool off dramatically, offering respite from the scorching heat of the summer months. So, it has been organised the global climate summit just to take advantage of the usual transitional period.
Much known the 19-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will avoid coming to global Cop27 talks in Egypt, as the news goes. The reasons behind her stiff determination may be comparatively varied as well as diversified but her conclusive decision stands tight. A UN climate summit is known as a Conference of the Parties (Cop). There have been 26 so far. That makes this one Cop27. The “parties” in the name are the 197 signatories to a UN climate treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Besides, the current holder of Cop, England forgot its September deadline to contribute $288m to the Green Climate Fund committed to assisting developing countries to adapt and mitigate climate effects. A different $20.6m pledge the UK made to the transformation fund has also yet to be compensated. Both funds support projects in the developing world. People are enduring the effects of the climate crisis the most in developing countries. What remains surprising is that they did the least to cause such a worse situation.
She has amply criticised the United Nations’ 27th conference on climate that is expected to take place along the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt on November 6. She has not felt any uneasiness in terming this summit as a forum for greenwashing.
However, the Swedish activist had once tweeted to convey solidarity with this grand summit. In the passing days what appeared wrong to her would only be apparent to her. We are supposedly focussing only on the news circulating in the media circle.
It will be worthwhile to mention here that the climate activists were formerly sighted with a protest banner spotted on the sphinx outside the Egyptian Museum of Turin in Italy around five months ago (July).
The Cop 27 conferences are not honestly meant to change the whole system. Instead, it facilitates gradual advance. So, it attempts to utilise the event as a practical opportunity to mobilise whatever opinions are being aimed at popularity. The summit appears to provide an opportunity for several leaders and people into getting straight-up endeavour of greenwashing, she asserted.