Published: November 20th, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025
Mankind is on a path towards 2.7 degrees – this COP could not change that. There were hardly any new NDCs. And the mitigation work program that the European Union wanted to promote in Sharm el-Sheikh remained lackluster in the end. The program was supposed to set out a process by which industrialized countries would gradually tighten their climate targets, in exchanges between high-level government representatives and with annual reviews. But the EU was unable to prevail.