Lara Lázaro

Climate Change Environmental Sustainability

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Lara Lázaro is a Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute and Lecturer in Economic Theory at Cardenal Cisneros University College in Madrid.

Lara Lázaro

Nov 15 2022

COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh: from climate frustration to radical implementation?

Illuminem Voices

Environmental Sustainability · Climate Change

COP 27 is taking place against the backdrop of multiple and interacting crises, all competing for attention: food and energy insecurity, inflation, debt, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a looming recession. All this makes the climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt) the third ‘tough’ COP in a row, after COP 25 was moved from Chile to Madrid and a gap year when COP 26 in Glasgow was postponed due to the pandemic.