- Some 50 state representatives are meeting in Kinshasa on Monday (3 October) for a two-day round of meetings ahead of November’s COP27, where the energy crisis and geopolitical tensions are already proving a major challenge for the future of multilateralism.
- It is thus in a “moment of deep and multiple crises” that COP27 will open on 7 November in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, followed by the COP15 on biodiversity on 7 December in Montreal, Canada.
- Geopolitics must not overshadow the protection of biodiversity, she urged, highlighting that around half of the world’s GDP ($44 trillion) is.
Pre-COP27: Climate negotiations to occur amid ‘deep’ multilateralism crisis
