Given the setbacks the global climate battle has suffered in the six months since the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get anywhere near excited about Egypt’s big COP27 event this November.
Yet even as global politicians vote against sound climate policies, chase new oil and gas deals, and step back from policies such as Europe’s Green Deal, the beginnings of the campaign to draw the climate elite to Sharm El-Sheikh is taking place.
Expect that campaign to at some point promote that delegates attending will be only a three-hour flight from nearby Qatar and this year’s World Cup soccer tournament, which starts three days after COP27 ends. Because that’s going to be one of the only ways to draw attention to a climate event that will likely cap one of the worst years for greenhouse gas emissions and climate disasters in history. Next to 2021.
By David Callaway
