At COP 27, countries come together to take action towards achieving the world's collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement in 2015. Building on the outcomes and momentum of COP26 in Glasgow last year, nations are expected to demonstrate at COP27 that they are in a new era of implementation by turning their climate commitments into action.  

While COP27 takes place in a challenging global context marked by several simultaneous crises, including the risk of passing multiple climate tipping points, ‘COP27 creates a unique opportunity for the world to come together, mend multilateralism, rebuild trust and unite at the highest political levels to address climate change’ as highlighted in the letter from the COP27 President to Parties and Observers.

The Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit 

COP27 takes place from 6 to 18 November in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. It includes the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit on 7-8 November featuring six high-level roundtable discussions, which will focus on enhancing implementation across six priority issues including food security, water security and energy.  

A High-level Segment for Heads of State and Governments is also part of the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit on 7-8 November and will then resume on 15 to 16 November. 

Check out an overview of the COP27 schedule.  

Science community at COP27

Read the ISC series on COP27 which brings perspectives from ISC Fellows and other members of the ISC network: 

• Perspectives from the ISC network on expectations for the COP 

• How can scientists make a difference at COP27? 

• The Role of Integrated Science in Understanding the Earth-Human System 

• In the face of extreme weather events, coordinated global action to address climate change is needed at COP27 

• Professor Carlos Lopes on why Africa needs to stick to renewables despite the temptation of gas 

10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022 

The 10 New Insights in Climate Science series is a joint initiative of Future Earth, the Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme. The 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022 report was prepared by a consortium of leading researchers from around the world. The annual series synthesizes the latest climate change related research for the international science-policy community. The report will be launched at COP27 on 10 November at 7:00 UTC. 

Check 10insightsclimate.science for updates. 

Launch of the 2022 Global Carbon Budget  

The Global Carbon Budget (GCB) is produced by the Global Carbon Project (GCP), which was created with the aim to bring together a global consortium of scientists to establish a common and mutually agreed understanding of the Earth carbon cycle. The GCB is the work of over 100 scientists around the world and tracks the trends in global carbon emissions and sinks, which is a key measure of progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. 

The 2022 GCB will be launched at COP27 on 11 November at 7:00 UTC. Find out more. 

Events

In addition, we are happy to share with you a compilation of events organized by the ISC membership and its broader networks: 

9 November  

📌 Transformative Pathways for Climate Action through Open and Citizen Science and Youth Empowerment organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and United Nations University (UNU). 

10 November 

📌 The global engineering view: Delivering an equitable, sustainable and low carbon resilient world by the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) Committee on Engineering and the Environment (CEE) in partnership with others. 

📌 Localized Financing for Climate Change Adaptation – Reducing Loss & Damage and Inequity Cycles organized by the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and UNDRR in partnership with others.  

📌 Localized Solutions to Reduce Climate Induced Loss & Damage for the Most Vulnerable hosted by the UNDRR Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (UNDRR-SEM), the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future and others. 

📌 Operationalizing finance for loss and damage: examples from Africa and the Caribbean hosted by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).   

📌 High services with low energy and resource demand for low-carbon pathways and the SDGs organized by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and others. 

📌 Utilising expertise of the youth to bridge the science-policy divide and improve access to finance by the International Water Association (IWA), WFEO Young Engineers and others. 

11 November  

📌 Climate Change and Sustainable Development in the Post-COVID-19 Era organized by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and others.

📌 Financing carbon neutrality in developed and developing countries: carbon pricing and beyond hosted by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and others.

16 November  

📌 How Can Asia Achieve a Net Zero Future? Building Coalitions for Transformative Change organized by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in partnership with others. 
 

17 November  

📌 Presentation of BRIDGES Coalition organized by UNESCO 

• For more information about these events and links to join, check the dedicated ISC webpage.
• All COP27 side events can be watched on the UNFCCC YouTube channel. 

What else to do at COP27 

• Participate in the Science for Climate Action Pavilion co-hosted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the MERI Foundation. Check the full programme. 

• Attend the SDG Pavilion organized by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) in partnership with UNFCCC and other partners. See the daily programme of the SDG Pavilion. 

• Attend the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) events at COP27, which will address specific themes including climate action in Africa, resilience building and financing for ocean science for climate action. See the full list of events. 

• Read the latest reports to inform COP27: 

  • UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2022 
  • World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Provisional State of the Global Climate in 2022 report 
  • The Land Gap Report led by University of Melbourne 
  • 2022 World Energy Outlook