The climate summit in Egypt ended on Saturday with intensive negotiations. Even a demolition was in the room in the meantime. There may have been a mini-compromise on Sunday evening.
It was eerie and oppressively quiet in the vast halls of this gigantic UNO art world in the middle of the desert. Because hundreds of conference participants had long since fled. Even the free coke vending machines were empty and locked, as were all buffets.
Sanitary without water
There were not even drinking water bottles anymore. Outside, the last of the UN officials, police and intelligence officers retreated. The fact that the power went out in some rooms and in the office of Minister Leonore Gewessler fits in with the sad picture of the chaotic COP27 from the start. Most toilet facilities were also quickly separated from the flush or completely unusable.
haste and frustration
Only in the negotiating center – shielded from the rest of the top world – did hectic and frustration increase. One message followed another, until the end the EU even threatened to cancel the summit and thus fail.
But that was also due to the Egyptian presidency. She came up with proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that fell short of those from last year’s conference in Glasgow. Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, promptly denounced this as “unacceptable”.
Hope only germinated when reports leaked about a possible agreement on compensation for global climate damage…
Source: Krone
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