Slow Food: COP27 ends, polluting food systems remain 21 November 2022 COP27 was meant to be the “Implementation COP”, but after two weeks of negotiations, existing pledges and national plans remain insufficient to reach the Paris agreement 1.5-degree target. Although food and agriculture have been higher up the agenda than at any previous round of climate talks, solutions put forward to help tackle their dramatic impact on climate change do not challenge the current status-quo, confirming once more the overrepresentation of the agrifood industry’s interests.
“COP27 risks becoming an opportunity for multinationals to negotiate their right to pollute”, by Edward Mukiibi 8 November 2022 Edward Mukiibi Seven years have passed since the 2015 Paris Agreement. Back then, governments had committed to keeping the planet’s average temperature rise to under 1.5°C by 2030. But what has happened since raises the prospect of an alarming +2.8°C by the end of the century, a devastating scenario, according to the recent UNEP Emissions Gap report, …
