COP27 'Loss And Damage' Negotiations A Prickly Pear And The Last Chance Saloon

Content

• Introduction
• Getting to the heart of the matter
• Strengthening Africa's climate clout through collaboration

Introduction

This year the matter of 'loss and damage' caused by climate change was cast onto the agenda at COP27 for the first time. Although in some ways it was a mention more than a beaming headline, this African edition of the 'Conference of the Parties', which I attended, represented a crescendo of African leaders, politicians and climate change activists.

The leaders were in tune, calling for this COP27 to be an 'implementation COP'. A COP that moved beyond the initial acknowledgement that the world's most industrialised economies need to take responsibility for the enormous impact their robust economic growth has had on the environment and their developing world peers.