COP27 will be held on the 6th of November to the 18th of November 2022 in Sharma El Sheikh, Egypt.
A signboard in Egypt for COP27 (BBC 2022).
This is an annual UN climate summit and is attended by the conference of parties which is made up of countries that signed up to the original UN climate agreement in 1992.
This will be the fifth time that a Conference of Parties will be hosted in Africa; which hopefully puts a spotlight on the issues that the continent faces due to financial climate change.
The AR6 IPCC report that was released earlier this year also stated that Africa was one of the most vulnerable regions in the world for climate change-related disasters.
The official logo for this year’s COP summit (UNFCC 2022).
Here’s the full IPCC AR6 Report chapter on Africa, if you’d like to catch up before COP27: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_Chapter09.pdf