EPRS Strategy By / November 14, 2022

The COP27 climate talks [What Think Tanks are thinking]

This note offers links to recent commentaries, studies and reports from international think tanks on climate issues published in the recent few months.

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Written by Marcin Grajewski.

Leaders and government officials from across the world are meeting at the annual climate summit amid warnings that it might soon be too late to take meaningful measures to slow down the global warming that threatens to impoverish life on Earth and is already causing weather anomalies. ‘We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator… Humanity has a choice: Cooperate or perish,’ United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said at the beginning of the meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

The meeting – the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties, or COP27 – is scheduled to last until 18 November. At the centre of discussions now are the aid and investment that rich countries could provide to poorer nations to help them develop without increasing emissions of greenhouse gases. Officials are also debating a mechanism for compensating poorer countries for losses and damage caused by climate change, which has partly come due to the emissions of wealthy countries.

This note offers links to recent commentaries, studies and reports from international think tanks on climate issues published in the recent few months.

How Europe can salvage its climate credibility at COP27
Atlantic Council, November 2022

To meet energy security and climate goals, Africa needs investment in infrastructure
Atlantic Council, November 2022

The IEA World Energy Outlook 2022 highlights climate finance needs ahead of COP27
Atlantic Council, November 2022

China’s energy security realities and COP27 ambitions
Atlantic Council, November 2022

COP27: An opportunity to get serious about climate migration
Brookings Institution, November 2022

COP27 must focus on actions, not words
Carnegie Europe, November 2022

Loss and damage finance in the climate negotiations
Chatham House, November 2022

What are the key issues at COP27?
Chatham House, November 2022

Geopolitical problems must not hamper progress at COP27
Chatham House, November 2022

Stop funding climate disaster
Corporate Europe, November 2022

Global climate agreements: Successes and failures
Council on Foreign Relations, November 2022

Perilous pathogens: How climate change is increasing the threat of diseases
Council on Foreign Relations, November 2022

Climate change and regional instability in the Horn of Africa
Council on Foreign Relations, November 2022

Perspectives on designing a climate club: Alliance-building to strengthen international climate cooperation
EPICO, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, November 2022

Fair energy transition for all: How to get there?
European Policy Centre, November 2022

Climate disinformation is killing the planet
Friends of Europe, November 2022

Why international climate summits are doomed to fail, Part 1: Aspirations untethered from reality
Heritage Foundation, November 2022

Just energy transition partnerships: Can they really make a difference, and how?
Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, November 2022

Brazil rainforest destruction accelerates to fastest rate since 2008
Wilson Center, November 2022

COP27 and financing for sustainable energy development
Atlantic Council, October 2022

It is unfair to push poor countries to reach zero carbon emissions too early
Brookings Institution, October 2022

In defence of borrowing for climate action
Centre for European Reform, October 2022

Aligning food systems with climate and biodiversity targets
Chatham House, October 2022

The deadly climate gamble
Corporate Europe, October 2022

COP27 Climate Summit in Egypt: What to expect
Council on Foreign Relations, October 2022

We’ll always have Paris: How to adapt multilateral climate cooperation to new realities
European Council on Foreign Relations, October 2022

An African COP: What’s at stake for COP27?

Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, October 2022

Collaborating and delivering on climate action through a climate club: an independent report to the G7
London School of Economics, October 2022

Climate club: The way forward
Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, October 2022

COP27’s success hinges on loss and damage finance discussions
World Resources Institute, October 2022

Where do we stand on COP26 climate promises? A progress report
World Resources Institute, October 2022

How does permitting for clean energy infrastructure work?
Brookings Institution, September 2022

How can the European Union adapt to climate change?
Bruegel, September 2022

EU climate change due diligence: Addressing climate change in the corporate sustainability due diligence proposal
Institute for European Environmental Policy, September 2022

Net-zero, circular transition in road transport
Institute for European Environmental Policy, September 2022

Russia’s climate action and geopolitics of energy transition: The uncertain and unsettling outlook following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Istituto Affari Internazionali, September 2022

Faire du fonds social pour le climat un levier de la lutte contre la pauvreté énergétique
Institut Jacques Delors, September 2022

How carbon tariffs and climate clubs can slow global warming
Peterson Institute for International Economics, September 2022

Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean: The potential for hydrogen partnership
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, September 2022

Climate club ‘green certificate’ would boost membership
Bruegel, August 2022

What the historic U.S. Climate Bill gets right and gets wrong
Council on Foreign Relations, August 2022

Serious gaming: Grounding and directing climate action
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, August 2022

How can the European Union adapt to climate change while avoiding a new fault line?
Bruegel, July 2022

A Transatlantic energy and climate pact is now more necessary than ever
Bruegel, July 2022

Mobilising EU investors to narrow the developing-country climate-finance gap
Bruegel, July 2022

Conference on the Future of Europe: What is next for EU climate policies
Ecologic, July 2022


Read this briefing on ‘The COP27 climate talks‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.


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