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 (a.i.) in Indonesia. She manages activities on localizing human rights in the context of SDGs in Asia Pacific and RWIs engagement with young people in the region. Her multidimensional role also allows her to oversee the national programmes in collaboration with the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights.
She graduated from Atma Jaya Catholic University (Faculty of Law) in 2010 and dedicated the following years working at a law firm targeting capacity building for the Indonesian military. As a committed and passionate young professional, she taught foundational knowledge on international humanitarian law to the Indonesian military.
After obtaining her master’s degree in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Oslo, she spent almost 4 years as a human rights officer at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. She worked on various thematic areas including children and women’s rights, business human rights, as well as the rights of persons with disabilities. She provided technical support and managed projects for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR).
When Windi is not in the office, she enjoys reading, traveling, and is very fond of spicy food.