ECO is perplexed. After a year’s workshops, the GlaSS work programme still hasn’t found its feet. Parties wasted precious time dithering and parroting each others’ interventions. Let ECO remind you that as we are negotiating here in Sharm-el-Sheikh, on African soil, people are dying due to climate impacts. ECO knows you did a lot of work this year and that you are excited for next year’s workshops. However, ECO would be remiss if it didn’t point out the importance of establishing the key building blocks of the Global Goal on Adaptation. The people and planet are relying on this process to deliver!!!
Let ECO show you a solution which is quite straightforward. COP27 must give a clear signal to the outside world on how we are moving forward towards meeting the overall objective of reducing vulnerabilities, enhancing adaptive capacity, and strengthening resilience as outlined in Article 7.1. ECO is seeing some good elements in the draft text that need to be strengthened further and Parties must see lessons from the Sustainable Development Goals and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. And we would be mad if we didn’t mention the central nature of local leadership, Indigenous knowledge and no one left behind alongside the best of science. Finally, ECO reminds Parties to leave Sharm el-Sheikh with a clear way forward to responding to the ever growing adaptation needs, and a path showing where we need to go.