Waking up in a post-Cop 27 world

CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience

Dec. 18 2022

By Murat Sartas, Innovation and Impact Management Scientist, CGIAR’s Climate Resilience Initiative (ClimBeR)

Our lessons from COP 27: For effective climate action, we must go beyond technical fixes and innovate and scale context-specific action, partnership collaboration, and digital ecosystem management systems packages for organizational solutions

COP 27 was very exciting, refreshing, intense and tiring, and – if we’re fortunate – a hope-inspiring milestone for saving Earth from climate disaster for humanity.

The annual United Nations climate conference, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, gathered 45,000 people from all over the world. Young folks from Africa sang and danced daily for Earth’s future in the Children and Youth Pavilion, adjacent to the first-ever Food and Agriculture Pavilion hosted by CGIAR, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Rockefeller Foundation.

But as the hundreds of stimulating side events continued deep into the event’s second week, tension began growing over the closed-door negotiations among the 197 member states and territories that are part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Would any breakthroughs finally put the brakes on planet-warming gases? Where would agriculture be in future negotiations? Would the term “food systems” make it into the final texts?

My CGIAR colleagues are preparing a range of expert reactions to COP27. But for now, here’s my take.

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