Significance of 2022 in the battle against climate change

Highlights 

• 2022 is special as this year we have the fifth LDC (Least Developed Countries) conference that happens once every 10 years.
• After the 2015 Paris agreement, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be launching its first comprehensive report on climate action.
• 2022 will also see the first-ever Middle East and North Africa Climate Week 2022, organised by the UN Climate Change.

 

It’s been almost two years since we have been fighting one of the deadliest pandemics witnessed by man. However, in this battle, we shouldn’t negate humanity’s biggest fight: climate change. It has been years, since we have realised that we need to decrease carbon emissions to preserve Earth’s healthy environment. However, due to the rising capitalist needs across countries, the measures taken to curb the emissions have been more or less inefficient.

2022 could be optimistic for the overall issue of climate change as several important events lay ahead in the following months. These events are significant to collectively promise and work towards reducing emissions and adapting to green infrastructure.

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• 5th UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC5)

2022 is special as this year we have the fifth LDC, a conference that happens once every 10 years. This year, it will be organised in Doha, Qatar. The motif of the conference is to discuss the issues that the 46 least developed countries face because of a fragile ecosystem and diminishing natural resources.

• IPCC Assessment Report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes its assessment report on climate change, actions, and climate-science once every six-seven years. So, after the 2015 Paris agreement, this year IPCC will be launching its first comprehensive report on climate action.

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• The Middle East and North Africa Climate Week 2022

Another reason why 2022 is crucial for climate change is that this year we are going to have the first-ever Middle East and North Africa Climate Week 2022, organised by the UN Climate Change. The event will be hosted by the UAE government in collaboration with the UN. The focus of the climate week will be to discuss the regional climate change crisis, mitigation strategies to recover from losses occurred due to climate change and the pandemic, and ways of building climate-resilient economies.

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• 15th UN Conference on Desertification

Another rising crisis led by climate change is desertification. The IPCC reported that around 500 million people live in areas that are undergoing desertification. Thus, this conference is significant to come up with ways of enhancing land restoration and depending upon natural resources for tackling climate change.

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• UN Ocean Conference

Water pollution is rising at an alarming rate. Oceans are our lungs. We get 50% of the oxygen from the oceans and they intake massive carbon too. However, oceans are in trouble. Loss of natural marine life, rising debris in the oceans due to human’s destructive and other activities. Thus, the upcoming conference will urge world leaders, politicians, industry experts to come together and fund ways of protecting oceans and life in it.

• UN Climate Change Conference

The year ends with the conference that we all wait for. The COP27 will be in November. This year’s conference will aim at escalating global climate talks, action against climate change and will look upon how climate change is affecting Africa, its population, and its land.

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Every year, multiple climate change conferences take place, however, one thing lags every year: efficient and effective implementation. With rising awareness against the issue, let’s be optimistic that this year the talks will actually convert into effective groundwork.