The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), more commonly known as COP27, was the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 6-20 November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
The COP27 Presidency launched an initiative titled: “Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace (CRSP)” with the aim of ensuring that integrated climate responses contribute to sustainable peace and development in line with national ownership and context specificity. The initiative aims to contribute to the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063: the Africa We Want, as well as to the implementation of the Africa's Silencing the Guns initiative, and the African Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan (2022-2032).
The four CRSP pillars are:
- Strengthening the Climate Adaptation and Peacebuilding Nexus
- Sustaining Peace through Climate-Resilient Food Systems
- Advancing Durable Solutions to the Climate-Displacement Nexus
- Accelerating Climate Finance for Sustaining Peace
The initiative was developed by the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA) in its capacity as the Secretariat of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development - which addressed the climate, peace and development nexus during its 3rd edition held in June 2022 - on behalf of the COP27 Presidency and with support from UNDP and other CRSP partners.
Find out more information on the CRSP Initiative.