United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27)

November 6-18, 2022
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

This year’s annual international summit on climate change, known as COP27, has been controversial since long before the opening gavel: The United Nations has been criticized for holding the meeting at an expensive, inaccessible resort in Egypt, and the U.S. is catching flak for failing to champion financial relief for countries already suffering climate change impacts. During 12 days of talks, world leaders will address the threat climate change poses to human rights and human survival on a warming planet. Texas in particular has experienced a rise in climate-related disasters and will face unique challenges in terms of human migration, disaster resilience, and vulnerable populations. At the same time, Texas researchers and entrepreneurs are developing solutions to help get us out of this mess.

In partnership with Texas Impact/Texas Interfaith Power & Light, The Austin Chronicle is providing an inside look at COP. Austinite Bee Moorhead leads a crew of advocates, policy experts, and videographers to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Check back here for their daily dispatches from the conference and analysis of what this high-stakes global climate policy meeting means for Texas.

Texas Impact/Texas Interfaith Power & Light is a faith-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 2000, providing theologically grounded public policy analysis to people of faith and other Texans. The Interfaith Center is the research and education partner of Texas Impact, a 501(c)(4) interfaith legislative advocacy network.