Last November, the UK, together with Italy, hosted an event many believe to be the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control – the UN Climate Change Conference. Glasgow was the culmination of work by the UK Presidency and globally over the course of 2020 and 2021.
On 5th of November 2021 the British Embassy in Tirana hosted an open conversation with young climate activists to mark the COP26 youth dedicated day in order to bring COP26 to a local context and engage young people in a dialogue on key environmental issues in Albania.
The hosting of COP27 in the green city of Sharm El-Sheikh this year marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In the thirty years since, the world has come a long way in the fight against climate change and its negative impacts on our planet; we are now able to better understand the science behind climate change, better assess its impacts, and better develop tools to address its causes and consequences.
Building on the good event and the great interest shown by young people on COP, we at Qëndresa Qytetare would like to undertake the realization of a study which takes into consideration COP27 priorities, in comparison to COP26 which took place in Glasgow.
We believe this study will help to initiate a dialogue about environmental issues and solutions, and build lasting partnerships on climate action.
In this context, this study will look into the priorities and agreements of both COP26 and COP27. At the same time we will try to see the progress made, with a strong focus on Albania by evaluating its presence at both COPs and at the same time the progress made back home.
The results of this study will be brought up for discussion in a roundtable which we plan to have at the end of January or beginning of February, in cooperation with the Albanian Chevening Alumni Association since the network has been engaged in the discussion about climate change and climate action in Albania. Other stakeholders will be invited to the table, such as the Ministry of Tourism and Environment, NGOs working on the field, independent activists and media.
