The city of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, hosts the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27, from November 6 to 18. The conference builds on the negotiations of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021, with the expectation that countries will demonstrate climate ambition and urgency to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5°C.
COP27 comes at the end of a year marked by extreme weather events in countries like Pakistan, France, and the United Kingdom, as well as the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, which has called into question Europe's energy transition plans. The defining challenge of this decade will be balancing climate and human priorities, such as access to energy and food—and it is precisely at climate conferences where these issues converge.
