The president of the summit said that the conference will be a turning point in the fight against climate change.
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More than 120 world leaders will arrive at the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. About 30,000 people are expected to attend the two-week summit, although some activists are staying away due to concerns about human rights in Egypt.
The summit will open with welcoming speeches by UN climate change envoy Simon Still and Egypt's foreign minister and appointee COP27 President Sameh Shoukry.
Last week, Shoukry said the conference would be “a turning point in the fight against climate change around the world.”
Diplomats and scientists are also expected to speak. The main part of COP27 will begin on Monday, November 7, with a meeting of world leaders, when heads of state and government will deliver five-minute speeches outlining what they expect from the summit.
It is expected that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will call on world leaders to move “further and faster” in the transition to renewable energy sources. He will also tell leaders not to back down from the commitments made at last year's COP26 summit in Glasgow.
World leaders will speak on Monday and Tuesday, and after their departure, conference delegates will begin negotiations.
A number of commitments were agreed at last year's Glasgow summit:
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Still urged this summit to focus on turning last year's promises into action. However, it will all come down to funding.
Developing countries on the front lines of climate change are demanding that prior funding commitments be met.
They also want discussions on funding that will help them cope with the losses they already face from climate change, not just prepare for future consequences. This is the first time that such an issue will be included in the official agenda of the COP summit.
The urgency of climate change has become even more evident over the past 12 months, with devastating floods in Pakistan and Nigeria, as well as extreme heat in India and Europe this summer.
A number of important climate reports have been published in the run-up to the conference.
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The UN Environment Programme's report on the emissions gap concluded that there is no “credible pathway” to keeping global temperature rises above the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold set from pre-industrial levels.
The limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius was agreed back in 2015 in the Paris Agreement at the 21st UN Climate Summit, COP21. All subsequent climate summits have focused on developing actions to achieve this goal.
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In addition to the official talks, within two weeks there will be hundreds of events with exhibitions, seminars and cultural performances by youth, business groups, academia and artists from around the world.
Protests, usually a prominent feature of COP summits, are likely to be suppressed. Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who has been in power since 2014, presides over a large-scale crackdown on dissent. Human rights groups estimate that there are up to 60,000 political prisoners in the country, many of whom are held without trial or investigation.
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Shukri said that a place would be set aside in Sharm el-Sheikh for protest actions. However, Egyptian activists told the BBC that many local groups were unable to register for the conference.
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