COP27 Archives - Inergency https://inergency.com/topics/cop27/ An online hub for emergency and natural disaster solutions Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:34:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://i0.wp.com/inergency.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-Copia-de-inergency-logo-1.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 COP27 Archives - Inergency https://inergency.com/topics/cop27/ 32 32 227046876 Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars https://inergency.com/two-from-mit-named-2024-marshall-scholars/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:34:12 +0000 https://inergency.com/two-from-mit-named-2024-marshall-scholars/ Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall ScholarsAnushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li have won Marshall Scholarships, a prestigious British government-funded fellowship that offers exceptional American students the opportunity to pursue several years of graduate study in any field at any university in the United Kingdom. Up to 50 scholarships are awarded each year by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. The students were […]]]> Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars



Anushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li have won Marshall Scholarships, a prestigious British government-funded fellowship that offers exceptional American students the opportunity to pursue several years of graduate study in any field at any university in the United Kingdom. Up to 50 scholarships are awarded each year by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.

The students were advised and supported by the distinguished fellowships team, led by Associate Dean Kim Benard in Career Advising and Professional Development. They also received mentorship from the Presidential Committee on Distinguished Fellowships, co-chaired by professors Will Broadhead and Nancy Kanwisher.

“The MIT students who applied for this year’s Marshall Scholarship embody that combination of intellectual prowess, hard work, and civic-mindedness that characterizes the Institute at its best,” says Broadhead. “These students are truly amazing! The thoughtfulness and optimism they demonstrated throughout the months-long exercise in critical reflection and personal growth that the application process demands impressed and inspired us all. On behalf of the Distinguished Fellowships Committee, Nancy and I are thrilled to extend our warmest congratulations to Anushree and Rupert and our very best wishes as they take their richly deserved places in the Marshall Scholar community.”

Anushree Chaudhuri

Anushree Chaudhuri from San Diego, California, will graduate next spring with bachelor’s degrees in urban studies and planning and economics and a master’s in city planning. As a Marshall Scholar, she plans to pursue an MPhil/PhD in environmental policy and development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In the future, Chaudhuri hopes to work across the public and private sectors to drive structural changes that connect global environmental challenges to local community contexts.

Since 2021, Chaudhuri has worked with Professor Larry Susskind in the Science Impact Collaborative to study local responses to large-scale renewable energy projects. This past summer, she traveled around California to document the experiences of rural and Indigenous communities most directly affected by energy transitions.

Chaudhuri has also worked with the United States. Department of Energy, the World Wildlife Fund, and an environmental, social, and governance investing startup, as well as with several groups at MIT including the Office of Sustainability, Environmental Solutions Initiative, and the Climate and Sustainability Consortium. She represented MIT as an undergraduate delegate to the United Nations COP27.

On campus, Chaudhuri co-leads the Student Sustainability Coalition, an umbrella organization for student sustainability groups. She has previously served as chair of Undergraduate Association Sustainability; a co-lead of the student campaign to revise MIT’s Fast Forward Climate Action Plan; judicial chair of Burton-Conner House; and as a representative on several campus committees, including the Corporation Joint Advisory Committee. She also loves to sing and write.

In 2023, Chaudhuri was named a Udall Scholar and an MIT Burchard Scholar. By taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines law, planning, economics, participatory research, and data science, she is committed to a public service career addressing social and climate injustices.

Rupert Li

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Rupert Li is a concurrent senior and master’s student at MIT. He will graduate in May 2024 with a BS in mathematics, a BS in computer science, economics, and data science, and a minor in business analytics. He will also be awarded an MEng in computer science, economics, and data science.

As a graduate student in the U.K., Li will pursue the MASt degree in pure mathematics at Cambridge University, followed by the MSc in mathematics and foundations of computer science at Oxford University. Li aspires to become a professor of mathematics.

Li has written 10 math research articles, primarily in combinatorics, but also including discrete geometry, probability, and harmonic analysis. Since his first-year fall, he has worked with Adjunct Professor Henry Cohn in the MIT Department of Mathematics and has authored two papers based on this work.

Li works on sphere-packing and coding theory, a famously challenging mathematical problem that has applications in error-correcting codes, which are ubiquitously used in the digital age to protect against data corruption. He currently also works with Professor Nike Sun in the MIT math department on probability theory and Professor Jim Propp of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell on enumerative combinatorics and statistical mechanics.

Li has worked as a course designer and teaching assistant for Professor Jim Orlin of the MIT Sloan School of Management and Professor Muhamet Yildiz in the Department of Economics, and is currently head teaching assistant for class 6.7900 (Machine Learning). Li received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and a Morgan Prize Honorable Mention for his undergraduate research. In his free time, he enjoys watching movies and playing strategy games with friends.

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A year after COP27, we explain what loss and damage is, how it relates to water, what a Loss and Damage Fund might do, and what progress has been made https://inergency.com/a-year-after-cop27-we-explain-what-loss-and-damage-is-how-it-relates-to-water-what-a-loss-and-damage-fund-might-do-and-what-progress-has-been-made/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:28:56 +0000 https://inergency.com/a-year-after-cop27-we-explain-what-loss-and-damage-is-how-it-relates-to-water-what-a-loss-and-damage-fund-might-do-and-what-progress-has-been-made/ A year after COP27, we explain what loss and damage is, how it relates to water, what a Loss and Damage Fund would do, and what progress has been madeThe past year has seen vulnerable communities across the globe experience numerous water-related disasters that have either threatened or completely decimated lives and livelihoods.  Countries in the Global South are exposed to this type of disaster, with their vulnerability often directly related to both the short- and long-term effects of the climate crisis. Calls for […]]]> A year after COP27, we explain what loss and damage is, how it relates to water, what a Loss and Damage Fund would do, and what progress has been made


The past year has seen vulnerable communities across the globe experience numerous water-related disasters that have either threatened or completely decimated lives and livelihoods. 

Countries in the Global South are exposed to this type of disaster, with their vulnerability often directly related to both the short- and long-term effects of the climate crisis.

Calls for climate reparations have gained momentum over the last few years and more concretely on the agenda of last year’s climate negotiations. In 2022, COP27 delegates reached a historic agreement on loss and damage funding, generally seen as a significant step in the right direction to assist climate-vulnerable nations.

A year on, the operationalization of the Loss and Damage Fund will be one of the main focal points of discussions at this year’s COP28 in Dubai.

What is loss and damage?

Despite loss and damage being a pressing issue at the top of the international climate crisis agenda, the UNFCCC does not recognize a set definition of the term. The phrase usually describes policies and actions that address the already unavoidable, and detrimental, effects of human-induced climate change.

The climate crisis has already impacted a myriad of communities across the globe, several of which are experiencing irrevocable loss and damage to life, livelihoods and ecosystems. Developing nations, who contribute the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, experience loss and damage most keenly.

The nature of climate change as a compounding crisis means that its effects are experienced in both the short and long term: vulnerable communities must contend with natural disasters in tandem with the ongoing pressures of slow-onset events. Catastrophes with an immediate and significant impact, such as floods or landslides, are an example of the short-term effects of the climate crisis. However, slow-onset events, such as gradual groundwater depletion or the intrusion of saltwater in freshwater resources, are also climate change-induced events with the capacity to wreak havoc on community resilience.

These events cause loss and damage in several ways and chiefly threaten to make already vulnerable communities increasingly susceptible to further climate-related disasters.

Why are some countries disproportionately impacted by loss and damage?

Rising global temperatures have triggered changes to our climate, with unpredictable and often damaging results. Climate change is an intersectional and compounding crisis that intensifies disaster likelihood across several challenges and issues. These sectors include socioeconomic development, food, land and water systems, and migration.

As environmental degradation continues to escalate, it is developing nations that do not have the means to cope with the compound challenge of climate change and are made increasingly vulnerable to loss and damage. This risk is multiplied for countries whose gross domestic product (GDP) relies heavily on the agricultural sector for food security and economic prosperity. In South Asia for example, 15% of the GDP is expected to be at risk by 2050. In contrast, countries with large GDPs, several of whom are responsible for the majority of historical global greenhouse gas emissions, have the financial ability to support adaptation planning and build disaster-risk resilience.

Why is water particularly important when thinking about loss and damage?

Water can be an extremely destructive force. Floods, landslides, droughts and water-borne diseases are just a few examples of water-related events induced by climate change that can have major negative impacts on whole countries and regions.

Water is also one of our most precious commodities. Without sufficient water in the agricultural sector crops fail and millions of people are at risk of losing their livelihoods and eventually starving. We are reliant on water to generate energy and access to safe drinking water protects and nurtures the health of entire communities. Shared water sources are often central to cross-border negotiations and international relations.

Each of these examples can cause loss and damage within the communities where their effects are concentrated. Hence, building resilience is central to climate mitigation. However, several of the impacted nations lack the capital to address these challenges and implement solutions.

What are some water-related examples of loss and damage?

The power of water to trigger disasters across entire regions is immense. In September of 2023, Storm Daniel deluged the North African country of Libya, causing dams and bridges to collapse. The resultant tidal wave claimed thousands of lives and destroyed entire neighborhoods. As of the September 28, 2023, over 40,000 people remain displaced, unable to return to homes that are either severely damaged or destroyed. While infrastructure failings undoubtedly played a significant role in the cause of the flooding, it is being reported that climate change made the event 50 times more likely and 50% more intense. The considerable risk associated with these floods is particularly concerning in the context of Libya’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions: in 2021 the country was responsible for 0.20% of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere.

While the influx of water can mean disaster, its absence is equally powerful. As of October 2023, severe drought and rapidly rising water temperatures in the Brazilian Amazon have caused oxygen levels in the river and Lake Tefe to plummet. The knock-on effect of which is suggested to have been the death of 120 endangered Amazon River dolphins, a number which makes up a sizable proportion of their remaining population. Lake Tefe’s water temperature is currently 10 degrees higher than usual October levels. The mass death of an endangered species is an important indicator that this Amazonian drought will have lasting consequences for all species relying on the river, including humans. In fact, water shortages in the region have pushed people to petition officials for aid as the food and fuel that normally reaches them via the dwindling river are unable to complete the journey.

What is being done to combat loss and damage?

The creation of a funding facility for loss and damage has been on the international agenda for years. Formal discussions concerning its implementation began in 2021, at COP26 in Glasgow. A group of countries referred to at the G77+China began pushing for developed nations to agree to a climate reparations fund that might support vulnerable and developing nations with the costs of dealing with the impacts of climate change. There was no formal agreement emerging from COP26, and the G77+ China waited until COP27 for a collected group of 200 nations to agree to the formation of a Loss and Damage Fund.

This announcement was the highlight of last year’s COP27 and made headlines across the globe, but also raised the question of who exactly might foot the bill. A Transitional Committee was tasked with establishing a set of recommendations for the Loss and Damage Fund: how the funding might be sourced, how it might be governed, and who should be eligible.

What might a Loss and Damage Fund do, and might it make a difference?

A recent study found that $143 billion per year of the costs of extreme events is attributable to climate change, and that the majority of it (63%) is due to loss of life.

A Loss and Damage Fund might enable developing and vulnerable nations to draw upon adequate monetary resources to protect themselves from the adverse effects of the climate crisis — the only way to make adaptation measures effective.

Among other ideas, it is hoped that the money be used to rehabilitate communities and ecosystems already suffering catastrophic loss and damage, install early warning and resilience schemes, and support displaced people.

“The adaptation finance gap in developing countries is likely five to ten times greater than current international adaptation finance flows and will only widen if we do not ramp up investments,” writes Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in the foreword to the UN’s Adaptation Gap Report 2022.

The Loss and Damage Fund represents an opportunity to close this financial gap. If implemented and governed properly, it may be possible to minimize the impact of the climate crisis on human life, nature, and the global economy.

What is next for the Loss and Damage Fund?

The conversation surrounding the Loss and Damage Fund will continue at COP28, where delegates will decide on the operationalization of the final recommendations of the Transitional Committee.

For grassroots activists and governments alike, the conference represents an opportunity to ensure climate finance is utilized effectively to prevent further damage to the world’s most vulnerable communities.

IWMI works across six regions to improve climate change adaptation and mitigation as it relates to water. Our researchers are particularly interested in advancing developments in policy and technology that establish local, regional and national resilience to loss and damage. IWMI will actively participate in COP28: supporting governments, aiding negotiators and engaging with current and prospective partners, media outlets and key stakeholders in the water and climate arenas.

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New Zealand push for global action at COP27 on climate loss and damage https://inergency.com/new-zealand-push-for-global-action-at-cop27-on-climate-loss-and-damage/ Sat, 11 Nov 2023 04:02:13 +0000 https://inergency.com/new-zealand-push-for-global-action-at-cop27-on-climate-loss-and-damage/ New Zealand push for global action at COP27 on climate loss and damageAotearoa New Zealand is supporting countries to deal with the impacts of loss and damage from climate change, as the UN climate conference COP27 gets underway in Egypt. The Government has announced a dedicated allocation of NZ$20 million climate funding to address loss and damage in developing countries. It delivers on commitments to deal with the […]]]> New Zealand push for global action at COP27 on climate loss and damage


Aotearoa New Zealand is supporting countries to deal with the impacts of loss and damage from climate change, as the UN climate conference COP27 gets underway in Egypt.

The Government has announced a dedicated allocation of NZ$20 million climate funding to address loss and damage in developing countries. It delivers on commitments to deal with the impacts of climate change that are not covered by funding for adaptation measures.

“Dedicated funding for loss and damage places Aotearoa New Zealand at the leading edge of wealthy countries who are supporting action to address loss and damage from climate change. It strongly signals our support for Pacific priorities,” said Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta.

“The loss of land and resources from sea-level rise is a well-known threat, but loss and damage for Pacific countries takes several forms. 

“We hear from our neighbours about climate impacts on freshwater systems, on plant and animal ecosystems, coastal waters and the ocean. It threatens the very basis of their lives. Loss and damage is happening to homes and crops and fisheries, but it also happens to cultures, languages, people’s mental health and their physical wellbeing,” said Nanaia Mahuta.

“As one of only three countries in the world to dedicate such funding – and with loss and damage on agenda for the first time at global climate negotiations in Egypt – today’s announcement sends an important signal about this Government’s commitment to global action to support communities to build a safe and fair future,” said James Shaw. 

“Comparatively wealthy countries like Aotearoa New Zealand have a duty to support countries most at-risk from climate change. The best way to do that is to cut climate pollution, but so too must we support communities to cope with the unavoidable impacts of the climate crisis. This funding will benefit communities in the Pacific and around the world.

“For decades, countries most at-risk from climate change, including communities in the Pacific, have called on developed nations to step up and provide support to minimise and address their loss and damage from climate change. These negotiations have been frustratingly slow, but now as one of only three countries to commit dedicated funding, New Zealand is taking a leading role to advance global action on loss and damage,” said James Shaw.

“Earlier this year the Prime Minister stood with Pacific Island Forum leaders in Fiji and declared a climate emergency. Recently we stand again with our friends, neighbours and family in the Pacific, to deliver on our intent to address loss and damage directly,” said Nanaia Mahuta.

“There are areas of loss and damage that are of acute concern in the Pacific, such as rebuilding livelihoods after disaster, preservation of language and culture, and supporting communities who are forced to move as a result of climate change.

“International negotiations have in the past struck difficulties regarding calls for climate finance to deal with loss and damage, as some countries are concerned over what it means for liability and compensation. We are now amongst just a handful of countries to commit to this dedicated funding.

“COP27 is likely to discuss a centralised fund for international commitments for loss and damage. While New Zealand is not opposed to this, we also support a wide range of funding arrangements to make best use of our contribution. We will work with our partners, in particular Pacific governments, to support areas they identify as priorities,” said Nanaia Mahuta.

The dedicated loss and damage funding is allocated from the scaled-up climate finance commitment made in October 2021. Support to deal with loss and damage was identified as a priority in Tuia te Waka a Kiwa, New Zealand’s international climate finance strategy announced in August.

James Shaw leaves on Friday 11 November for the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, being held in Egypt.

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A breakthrough on “loss and damage,” but also disappointment, at UN climate conference https://inergency.com/a-breakthrough-on-loss-and-damage-but-also-disappointment-at-un-climate-conference/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:36:54 +0000 https://inergency.com/a-breakthrough-on-loss-and-damage-but-also-disappointment-at-un-climate-conference/ A breakthrough on “loss and damage,” but also disappointment, at UN climate conferenceAs the 2022 United Nations climate change conference, known as COP27, stretched into its final hours on Saturday, Nov. 19, it was uncertain what kind of agreement might emerge from two weeks of intensive international negotiations. In the end, COP27 produced mixed results: on the one hand, a historic agreement for wealthy countries to compensate […]]]> A breakthrough on “loss and damage,” but also disappointment, at UN climate conference



As the 2022 United Nations climate change conference, known as COP27, stretched into its final hours on Saturday, Nov. 19, it was uncertain what kind of agreement might emerge from two weeks of intensive international negotiations.

In the end, COP27 produced mixed results: on the one hand, a historic agreement for wealthy countries to compensate low-income countries for “loss and damage,” but on the other, limited progress on new plans for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.

“We need to drastically reduce emissions now — and this is an issue this COP did not address,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement at the conclusion of COP27. “A fund for loss and damage is essential — but it’s not an answer if the climate crisis washes a small island state off the map — or turns an entire African country to desert.”

Throughout the two weeks of the conference, a delegation of MIT students, faculty, and staff was at the Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center to observe the negotiations, conduct and share research, participate in panel discussions, and forge new connections with researchers, policymakers, and advocates from around the world.

Loss and damage

A key issue coming in to COP27 (COP stands for “conference of the parties” to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, held for the 27th time) was loss and damage: a term used by the U.N. to refer to harms caused by climate change — either through acute catastrophes like extreme weather events or slower-moving impacts like sea level rise — to which communities and countries are unable to adapt. 

Ultimately, a deal on loss and damage proved to be COP27’s most prominent accomplishment. Negotiators reached an eleventh-hour agreement to “establish new funding arrangements for assisting developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.” 

“Providing financial assistance to developing countries so they can better respond to climate-related loss and damage is not only a moral issue, but also a pragmatic one,” said Michael Mehling, deputy director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, who attended COP27 and participated in side events. “Future emissions growth will be squarely centered in the developing world, and offering support through different channels is key to building the trust needed for more robust global cooperation on mitigation.”

Youssef Shaker, a graduate student in the MIT Technology and Policy Program and a research assistant with the MIT Energy Initiative, attended the second week of the conference, where he followed the negotiations over loss and damage closely. 

“While the creation of a fund is certainly an achievement,” Shaker said, “significant questions remain to be answered, such as the size of the funding available as well as which countries receive access to it.” A loss-and-damage fund that is not adequately funded, Shaker noted, “might not be an impactful outcome.” 

The agreement on loss and damage created a new committee, made up of 24 country representatives, to “operationalize” the new funding arrangements, including identifying funding sources. The committee is tasked with delivering a set of recommendations at COP28, which will take place next year in Dubai.

Advising the U.N. on net zero

Though the decisions reached at COP27 did not include major new commitments on reducing emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels, the transition to a clean global energy system was nevertheless a key topic of conversation throughout the conference.

The Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET), an independent, international body of engineers and energy systems experts formed to provide advice to the U.N. on achieving net-zero emissions globally by 2050, convened for the first time at COP27. Jessika Trancik, a professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and a member of CEET, spoke on a U.N.-sponsored panel on solutions for the transition to clean energy.

Trancik noted that the energy transition will look different in different regions of the world. “As engineers, we need to understand those local contexts and design solutions around those local contexts — that’s absolutely essential to support a rapid and equitable energy transition.”

At the same time, Trancik noted that there is now a set of “low-cost, ready-to-scale tools” available to every region — tools that resulted from a globally competitive process of innovation, stimulated by public policies in different countries, that dramatically drove down the costs of technologies like solar energy and lithium-ion batteries. The key, Trancik said, is for regional transition strategies to “tap into global processes of innovation.”

Reinventing climate adaptation

Elfatih Eltahir, the H. M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, traveled to COP27 to present plans for the Jameel Observatory Climate Resilience Early Warning System (CREWSnet), one of the five projects selected in April 2022 as a flagship in MIT’s Climate Grand Challenges initiative. CREWSnet focuses on climate adaptation, the term for adapting to climate impacts that are unavoidable.

The aim of CREWSnet, Eltahir told the audience during a panel discussion, is “nothing short of reinventing the process of climate change adaptation,” so that it is proactive rather than reactive; community-led; data-driven and evidence-based; and so that it integrates different climate risks, from heat waves to sea level rise, rather than treating them individually.

“However, it’s easy to talk about these changes,” said Eltahir. “The real challenge, which we are now just launching and engaging in, is to demonstrate that on the ground.” Eltahir said that early demonstrations will happen in a couple of key locations, including southwest Bangladesh, where multiple climate risks — rising sea levels, increasing soil salinity, and intensifying heat waves and cyclones — are combining to threaten the area’s agricultural production.

Building on COP26

Some members of MIT’s delegation attended COP27 to advance efforts that had been formally announced at last year’s U.N. climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland.

At an official U.N. side event co-organized by MIT on Nov. 11, Greg Sixt, the director of the Food and Climate Systems Transformation (FACT) Alliance led by the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab, provided an update on the alliance’s work since its launch at COP26.

Food systems are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions — and are increasingly vulnerable to climate impacts. The FACT Alliance works to better connect researchers to farmers, food businesses, policymakers, and other food systems stakeholders to make food systems (which include food production, consumption, and waste) more sustainable and resilient. 

Sixt told the audience that the FACT Alliance now counts over 20 research and stakeholder institutions around the world among its members, but also collaborates with other institutions in an “open network model” to advance work in key areas — such as a new research project exploring how climate scenarios can affect global food supply chains.

Marcela Angel, research program director for the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), helped convene a meeting at COP27 of the Afro-InterAmerican Forum on Climate Change, which also launched at COP26. The forum works with Afro-descendant leaders across the Americas to address significant environmental issues, including climate risks and biodiversity loss. 

At the event — convened with the Colombian government and the nonprofit Conservation International — ESI brought together leaders from six countries in the Americas and presented recent work that estimates that there are over 178 million individuals who identify as Afro-descendant living in the Americas, in lands of global environmental importance. 

“There is a significant overlap between biodiversity hot spots, protected areas, and areas of high Afro-descendant presence,” said Angel. “But the role and climate contributions of these communities is understudied, and often made invisible.”    

Limiting methane emissions

Methane is a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas: When released into the atmosphere, it immediately traps about 120 times more heat than carbon dioxide does. More than 150 countries have now signed the Global Methane Pledge, launched at COP26, which aims to reduce methane emissions by at least 30 percent by 2030 compared to 2020 levels.

Sergey Paltsev, the deputy director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and a senior research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative, gave the keynote address at a Nov. 17 event on methane, where he noted the importance of methane reductions from the oil and gas sector to meeting the 2030 goal.

“The oil and gas sector is where methane emissions reductions can be achieved the fastest,” said Paltsev. “We also need to employ an integrated approach to address methane emissions in all sectors and all regions of the world because methane emissions reductions provide a near-term pathway to avoiding dangerous tipping points in the global climate system.”

“Keep fighting relentlessly”

Arina Khotimsky, a senior majoring in materials science and engineering and a co-president of the MIT Energy and Climate Club, attended the first week of COP27. She reflected on the experience in a social media post after returning home. 

“COP will always have its haters. Is there greenwashing? Of course! Is everyone who should have a say in this process in the room? Not even close,” wrote Khotimsky. “So what does it take for COP to matter? It takes everyone who attended to not only put ‘climate’ on front-page news for two weeks, but to return home and keep fighting relentlessly against climate change. I know that I will.”

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AT COP27, ACTION AGAINST HUNGER CALLS ON LEADERS TO INVEST IN LOCALLY-LED CLIMATE SOLUTIONS THAT ADDRESS HUNGER AND HEALTH https://inergency.com/at-cop27-action-against-hunger-calls-on-leaders-to-invest-in-locally-led-climate-solutions-that-address-hunger-and-health/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:39:03 +0000 https://inergency.com/at-cop27-action-against-hunger-calls-on-leaders-to-invest-in-locally-led-climate-solutions-that-address-hunger-and-health/ AT COP27, ACTION AGAINST HUNGER CALLS ON LEADERS TO INVEST IN LOCALLY-LED CLIMATE SOLUTIONS THAT ADDRESS HUNGER AND HEALTHDuring COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Action Against Hunger, a nonprofit leader working to end hunger in our lifetime, is calling on global leaders to pledge binding climate investments designed to address hunger and health. With 27 out of the 35 countries most impacted by climate change currently suffering from extreme food insecurity and with famine looming, […]]]> AT COP27, ACTION AGAINST HUNGER CALLS ON LEADERS TO INVEST IN LOCALLY-LED CLIMATE SOLUTIONS THAT ADDRESS HUNGER AND HEALTH


During COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Action Against Hunger, a nonprofit leader working to end hunger in our lifetime, is calling on global leaders to pledge binding climate investments designed to address hunger and health. With 27 out of the 35 countries most impacted by climate change currently suffering from extreme food insecurity and with famine looming, the nonprofit said that governments, corporations, and private donors must prioritize support for climate-resilient food systems.    

“The climate crisis is a health and hunger crisis and we need bold action that puts the most impacted communities first,” said John Otieno, Regional Advocacy Officer for Action Against Hunger in the Horn and Eastern Africa. “Smallholder farmers produce one-third of the world’s food and are among the people most affected by climate change. Yet, they receive only 1.7% of global climate finance. We have a narrowing window to protect their futures and the future of our planet.”  

Otieno and other Action Against Hunger leaders are playing an active role in COP27 to advocate for urgent policy changes and advance innovative solutions. Its experts will appear at multiple sessions live-streamed and in-person including:  

  • 12th November, 3-4 pm (EET): "Climate and Hunger Crisis: Governance and Solutions" with Yvonne Takang, Advocacy Expert, Action Against Hunger 

  • 12th November, 4.30-5.30 pm (EET), Blue Zone: "Securing Nutrition Together! Locally-led Adaptation in East Africa" with John Otieno, Regional Advocacy Officer for Action Against Hunger in the Horn and Eastern Africa 

  • 17th November, 4.00-5.30 pm (EET), Blue Zone: "Climate Resilient Food Systems and Planetary Health – Multidisciplinary Experiences on Achieving Food Security and Combating Malnutrition in East Africa" with John Otieno, Action Against Hunger 

“We urge global leaders to support transformative agricultural initiatives, clean water security, new food systems, and locally-led adaptations,” said Mamadou Diop, Action Against Hunger’s regional representative in West and Central Africa. “Action Against Hunger supports millions of people around the world who are acutely threatened by poverty and hunger and their needs are far greater than the resources available to help. There is an urgent need for funding for climate change adaptation and mitigation. During COP27, we must unite to create a climate-resilient world that is free from hunger, for everyone, for good. which should go directly to local communities and civil society organizations.” 

This is the first time that the UN Climate Change Conference is taking place in Africa, a continent particularly hard-hit by the impact of climate collapse on health and hunger. Around 278 million people in Africa are chronically hungry, or about 20% of the African population, compared with 10% of the global population facing chronic hunger.   

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Action Against Hunger is leading a global movement to end hunger in our lifetimes. It innovates solutions, advocates for change, and reaches 24 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a nonprofit that works across 50 countries, its 8,300 dedicated staff members partner with communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequity, and emergencies. It strives to create a world free from hunger, for everyone, for good. 

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