Teresa Ribera, elected facilitator in the negotiations of the Climate Summit

The Presidency of the Climate Summit in Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) appointed on Tuesday Teresa Ribera, third vice president of the Government of Spain and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, as facilitator of the negotiations on adaptation to the impacts of climate change.

The Presidency of the Climate Summit in Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) appointed on Tuesday Teresa Ribera, third vice president of the Government of Spain and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, as facilitator of the negotiations on adaptation to the impacts of climate change.

The Climate Summit – known as COP27 – advances in its second and final week with a first outline of its final political decision that includes a long list of aspects that could include the final text, but does not mention the abandonment of fossil fuels.

In a year marked by the impacts of climate change, which in many parts of the planet have resulted in droughts, floods, forest fires and especially severe heat waves, Ribera was chosen by the Presidency of COP27 to facilitate the negotiation on adaptation, a task that she will carry out together with Shauna Aminath, Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Technology of Maldives.

It is the fifth time that Ribera has been appointed by the Presidency of these UN-sponsored climate conferences as a facilitator in the negotiations. He also carried out this work at the Climate Summits in Cancun (Mexico) in 2010, Katowice (Poland) in 2018, Madrid in 2019 and Glasgow (United Kingdom) in 2021, according to government sources.

The role of the facilitators is to accelerate and push forward agreements in the negotiations of key items on the COP27 agendas. Adaptation, along with the agenda of loss and damage produced by the impacts of climate change, is one of the central points in Sharm el Sheikh and one of the main demands of African countries.

“We must build on the Glasgow agreements and concretize an evaluation system that advances the global objective of adaptation. The decision of this COP must include a work program that serves as a guide to measure the impacts, risks and vulnerability, and establishes how to carry out the planning of the countries and the implementation of the measures,” Ribera said in statements provided by his department.

Source: The Vanguard