COP 27 Nov 22

COP 27 …  Another COP-out???

COP 26 (Glasgow 2021) was going well until the last part of the last day, when the entire negotiations were derailed by the changing of one word in the final communiqué:  Phase OUT (fossil fuel use) became Phase DOWN….

The ultimate COP-out.

The Q is: will COP 27 in Sharm El Sheik be any more successful?

You need to know:

• What happened at COP 26?
• What has happened since & where we are now on the issue (climate change & sustainability)
• What COP 27 is setting out to achieve.
• What has happened at COP 27 thus far (and obviously to keep a weather eye on what happens over the next 10 days and where that leaves us).

What happened at COP 26?

• My brief account / summary of COP 26 as it happened, with links you should follow.
• The Official COP 26 Outcomes website

What has happened since & where we are now on climate change & sustainability)

• WRI Review of post COP 26 Pledges progress
• Guardian article summarising progress (or lack thereof) towards COP26 objectives just before the start of COP 27
• Climate Action Tracker (brilliant site!) enables us to track, compare and contrast progress made (or lack thereof) by individual countries or blocks of countries:
  • The EU progress (deemed insufficient!)
  • Find your country and review its progress – some of the countries which are ‘almost sufficient’ may surprise you!
  • The CAT ‘Thermometer‘… showing likely temperature rises in relation to targets and pledges.
• International Panel on Climate Change has many reports and updates – the science upon which COP Discussions and decisions are (should be?) based.

What COP 27 is setting out to achieve.

• Chatham House introduction to COP 27 objectives
• The WWF’s list of critical expectations of COP 27 (helpfully bullet-pointed).

What has happened at COP 27 thus far?

• ?????  Have a look for places where you can see the outputs of the day’s events.  Build links!

YOUR TASKS (as a group).

SITUATION.

The IES and ESS teaching teams need you to give them a detailed analysis/synthesis of the above (COP 26 outputs/promises + post COP26 progress + the current situation + the COP27 goals + progress to date at COP27)  as a contextual update for their teaching and for the forthcoming revalidation of the IES and ESS teaching programmes.

Divide up the tasks and links, follow the links, read a good deal of what is at the end of them, pull together a synthesis of what you have worked on, then combine it with your colleagues’ research synthesis.

Come to our next (and last) class with:

A team oral and visual (PPT / PREZI) presentation of your key findings (all to participate in the oral presentation and in the creation of the prezi/PPT).  ASSESSED.

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