Greta Thunberg has described climate summits like COP27 — taking place in Egypt next week — as a “scam”. As an activist, I see her point. These massive conferences achieve nothing unless those who go actually commit to financing the changes that we need.
COP27 — which is said represents the world’s last best chance to limit global warming to 1.5C by turning the Paris commitments into action and helping build a sustainable future for all — is taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh. And it has been in the news, not because we are embarrassed that the host country has the largest number of women and girls who have undergone FGM and still refuses to lock up their abusers, but because our Prime Minister had said he was not going to attend.
