Raul Alfaro-Pelico

Climate Change Environmental Sustainability

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Raul Alfaro-Pelico is the senior director of RMI’s Energy Transition Academy within the Global South Program. He leads RMI’s capacity development efforts to secure a net-zero future for all.

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.

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