This year, The Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change conference COP27 will take place from 6-18 November 2022. The venue is Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre (SHICC) Egypt. The Raoul Wallenberg Institute is excited to participate yet another year!
This conference aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Previously, at COP26 in Glasgow, UK, RWI has been involved in voicing the interlinkages between human rights, gender equality, climate change and the environment. In 2022, RWI Asia-Pacific will be participating at COP 27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
COP stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’, and is the supreme decision-making body of the UN Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted in 1992.
All states that are Parties to this Convention are represented at the COP. At the summit, they will review the implementation of the Convention and any other legal instruments that the COP adopts, including the Paris Agreement in 2015.
They will also take decisions necessary to promote the effective implementation of the Convention, including institutional and administrative arrangements.
In parallel with the negotiations tracks, the COP27 Egyptian Presidency has designated a number of key thematic days that will place on its agenda a number of panel discussions, roundtables and side events.
The thematic days come as part of our efforts to enable a broad interaction with various stakeholders where the voice of youth, women, civil society and indigenous people will be at the center of these discussions and an enabler to its influence.
Among key focus areas will be the promise of innovation and clean technologies as well as the centrality of water and agriculture to the climate crisis.
More Info about Thematic days.
Last Year, the COP 26 summit was hosted by the United Kingdom, in partnership with Italy. It took place at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland, between 31 October – 12 November, 2021.
Enhancing countries’ ability to adapt to climate change impacts is another important aspect of COP 26, given that some adverse consequences are now considered by the IPCC report as “irreversible”. Loss and damage will also be high on the climate agenda last year.
It is a discussion underpinned by the question on how states will address and remedy the irreparable climate-induced economic and non-economic damage that cannot be avoided. This issue is particularly important for small island states whose very existence is threatened by rising sea levels.
RWI Representation at COP27
Windi Arini
Windi is currently the Country Director at RWI’s Indonesia Office. She leads the Jakarta team and contributes to regional initiatives across Southeast Asia that strengthen access to justice, climate resilience, and rights-based local governance. Her work includes advancing RWI’s engagement with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and supporting the development of regional tools on environmental adjudication.
Windi first joined RWI as a Programme Officer, where she focused on localising human rights in the context of the SDGs. She worked closely with local governments, academic institutions, and CSOs to help shape inclusive, rights-based policies—efforts that continue to inform RWI’s work on human rights cities today.
She graduated from Atma Jaya Catholic University (Faculty of Law) in 2010 and began her career at a law office where she led capacity-building programmes on international humanitarian law and human rights for the Indonesian military. After earning her master’s degree in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Oslo, she served nearly four years as a Human Rights Officer at the ASEAN Secretariat. There, she provided technical and project support to AICHR and ASEAN-IPR across a range of thematic areas, including women and children’s rights, business and human rights, and the rights of persons with disabilities.
When not in the office, Windi enjoys reading, traveling, and is especially fond of spicy food.