How Newsroom's Rod Oram will cover the critical climate summit, on the ground in Sharm el-Sheikh
This is COP27. But in many ways, each COP has been important and different in its own way. And so this is a really crucial one because what we're seeing in the latest reports from the UN, we are way, way off-track.
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But I'm also very keen to bring you the look and feel of COP and video is the best way to do that. So it's going to be a great pleasure to, each day, bring you a one minute video to deliver three things: something that's gone very well, something that's gone very badly, and something that's really struck me and will probably linger long with me.
So we're calling this Good COP, Bad COP, all in a minute, every day.
This is in Africa. So it's not just about getting the developed countries on board with this, because all the growth in populations, economy and emissions over coming decades is going to be from Africa. And so the whole world has to get around all developing countries, but particularly those in Africa, with the technology support, the capital, the compensation for loss and damage already created by the climate crisis.
It's very challenging for Egypt, because to be blunt, it is an authoritarian regime and suppresses dissent. And it looks as though it's making it a bit difficult for some non-governmental organiosations to get to this COP.
It's an enormous challenge and a huge responsibility for Egypt, to rise to those global challenges, in terms of its own political culture and system.
