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COP27: UN-Climate Conference in Egypt 2022

The 27th World Climate Conference will take place in Sharm El Sheikh from 6 to 18 November 2022 under the presidency of Egypt. Germanwatch will be there and will provide background information, press releases and blog posts about the process.

Focus pages of the UN climate conferences

2024: COP29 in Baku/Azerbaijan

2023: COP28 in Dubai

2022: COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh

2021: COP26 in Glasgow/UK

2019: COP25 in Madrid/Spain

2018: COP24 in Katowice/Poland

2017: COP23 in Bonn/Germany

2016: COP22 in Marrakech/Marokko

2015: COP21 in Paris/France

2014: COP20 in Lima/Peru

Archive: Background papers from past UN climate conferences

Germanwatch has accompanied all UN climate conferences for many decades with information-rich background papers.
An overview of all publications can be found here >>.

News and Publications on COP27

Pressemitteilung

UN Climate Conferences Press Release | 14.11.2022

Moment of truth: How serious are countries about their climate commitments?

The current energy crisis clearly demonstrates how the world remains dependent on fossil fuels. However, there is a number of countries that have a better standing than others. They took ambitious steps in climate mitigation and rapidly developed energy efficiency and renewable energies. Today, Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute and CAN International published the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2023, a ranking of the 59 largest emitters worldwide

Title page CCPI 2023

UN Climate Conferences International climate cooperation | 14.11.2022

The Climate Change Performance Index 2023: Results

Published annually since 2005, the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is an independent monitoring tool for tracking the climate protection performance of 59 countries and the EU. It aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics and enables comparison of climate protection efforts and progress made by individual countries.

Titelseite der Methodenbroschüre

UN Climate Conferences International climate cooperation | 14.11.2022

The Climate Change Performance Index 2023: Background and Methodology

The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) compares 59 countries and the EU in the areas of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Renewable Energies, Energy Use and Climate Policy, thus providing a comprehensive overview of the current efforts and progress of the countries analysed. This brochure explains the background and methodology of the CCPI.

Cover page

UN Climate Conferences International climate cooperation | 24.10.2022

International Climate Policy in Times of Geopolitical Challenge

This background paper provides an overview of the most important negotiation topics of COP27, which will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from 6 to 18 November. There is no doubt that the impact of Russia's war against Ukraine will be the dominant topic of this year's global climate conference. At the same time, participants should be aware that the impacts of climate change have no regard for the geopolitical situation.

Title Page

UN Climate Conferences International climate cooperation | 29.08.2022

Ignite Fireworks of Action through Climate Initiatives

At the UN Climate Conference in Glasgow (COP26), several multilateral initiatives were launched that manifest the ongoing development of a more polycentric and complex international climate governance. Read more about how they can potentially close the 2030 ambition gap and implement climate action more quickly in our policy brief.

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