The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) begins its second week in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt). This 5th “African” COP is being held in an international context that is not conducive to making progress in the fight against global warming, which is making its effects felt more and more frequently around the world. “One day at the COP” delivers a summary of what was said and tied during the day of negotiations, and goes to meet some of its actors. The theme of the day was devoted to gender and water.
With our special correspondents at the COP
IT IS SAID !
“We are going to be very vigilant, we European Union with many allied countries, that we stay on a trajectory which allows us to limit the increase in temperature to 1.5°C. Why ? Because we can currently see at +1.2°C what climate change represents. And a +1.5°C world is very, very different from a +2°C world. »,
explained Stéphane Crouzat, during a press briefing. Countries, China and Saudi Arabia in the lead, said last week that they wanted to call into question the 1.5°C objective of the Paris Agreement, on the pretext that it would already be too late.
AT COP TODAY
♦ US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met before the G20 summit in Bali. In the wake of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China froze climate and environmental talks with the United States. Li Shuo of Greenpeace China hopes for a resumption of dialogue: Will the dialogue resume or not at the COP? I think this is a crucial question if we want to make progress on the climate in the future. Because it is obvious that we will not be able to face the challenges posed by climate change if the two largest greenhouse gas emitting countries do not even speak to each other. So the two presidents are going to meet for the first time in Bali, and we know that they are going to talk about the climate. We really hope that the two leaders will reach an agreement, at least to resume dialogue on this issue. If so, I think we will see the positive effects here at the COP. And that will put us in more favorable political conditions for the next few years for the international community to respond to the climate emergency. (Collected by Jane Richard)
♦ Some countries, starting with China and Saudi Arabia, are asking to reconsider the commitments already made, in particular that of aiming to limit climate change to +1.5 degrees by the end of the century, the flagship objective of the Paris agreement, because it would already be too late. For Stéphane Crouzat, head of negotiators for the French delegation, this is a dangerous idea: ” We are going to be very vigilant, we, the European Union with many allied countries, that we stay on a trajectory that allows us to limit the increase in temperature to 1.5°C. Why ? Because we can currently see at +1.2°C what climate change represents. And a +1.5°C world is very, very different from a +2°C world. (Collected by Jane Richard)
♦ The Minister of the Environment of Congo-Brazzaville, Arlette Soudan Nonault, slams the door of the COP. She judges that the speeches of the Heads of State have led to nothing and that the virtues of the lungs of the planet of the Congo Basin have not been recognized at their fair value (collected by Claire Fages).
[…] That we have the honesty to let ourselves go clearly towards the sovereign carbon market. Did you know that earlier in the context of mitigation, the issue of the Congo Basin was not even mentioned, and that of Africa was not mentioned at all. So I’m afraid they want to suffocate us. We have to be quoted recognizing that we are the regulator. They don’t say it, because recognizing that it is a good student of mitigation because behind it, there are the ecosystem services we claim, which are due to us.
♦ Gender and Health. Dr. Zeinab Noura, Nigerian specialist in endocrinology and nutrition and promoter of the health and climate change research center, insists on the need to educate women on the health consequences of climate change. Diseases, such as malaria and meningitis, are on the rise in Niger, with the upheaval in the climate (collected by Claire Fages).
♦ Proof of life of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a famous political activist detained in Egypt. Civil society and the activist’s sister have launched a major media campaign to raise awareness of his fate. Alaa Abdel Fattah has been on a hunger strike since April and recently also stopped drinking. Details with Nicolas Haeringer, of the NGO 350.org (collected by Jane Richard).
BEHIND THE SCENES IN IMAGE.
The multicolored fresco extends over more than three meters, on the wall of the youth pavilion and it is not finished. ” I had already passed in front of it and I found the wall very empty. I often paint at home. So when they started painting it, I asked to participate, after my service smiles, brush and palette in hand, Bassant Badr. This 29-year-old Egyptian is part of the armada of young volunteers to help with the organization. At the origin of the work, the Fearless Collective, a group of feminist artists who create murals all over the world to highlight oppressed populations.
Past, present, future, and three young women at each stage of this symbolism. Around them evolve the elements of nature: the moon, the stars, the ocean, the animals, “ the plants and the earth that are our roots “. Framed by the faces of the Brazilian Puyr (left) and the Pakistani Aïsha Siddiqa (right), the Ugandan Vanessa Nakate, often called “the African Greta”, stares at the visitor and holds the present in her hands: the ” declaration of the empire of the Earth 2022”. Its content is still under construction. A bit like this COP, the first drafts of which are starting to come out.
THEY MAKE THE COP.
A straw against floods and drought: meeting with Trupti Jain, co-inventor of Bhungroo
This 52-year-old woman and her accomplice Biplabketan Paul are at the origin of this formidable tool of efficiency to fight against both drought and flooding of agricultural crops. Thanks to it, 125,000 people have permanent access to rainwater. And Bhungroo is above all a matter of women, who are the only ones trained to use it. How does it work ? To discover here, in video.