Case Study:

EGYPT: THE CLOCK AT COP27

Activists Urge World Leaders to #ActinTime at COP27.

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At COP27, the Climate Clock team rallied global leaders and activists to #ActInTime, unveiling a 12-meter Clock Tower and helping drive the creation of the first-ever UN Loss and Damage Fund.

Impact Stats

  • Action Clocks delivered to several high level officials, including the President of South Africa, the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, the Maldivian Minister of Environment and the Official Estonian Delegation

  • For the first time ever, a UN climate conference produced a Loss and Damage fund for wealthy, high-emitting nations to cover the costs caused by climate change.

  • 270 new followers on instagram

  • 16,200 Tweet (X) Impressions

  • 157K website page visits

  • 32 pieces of media coverage, including pieces from BBC, ABC News, AP News, and others

  • 1,250,306,381 Monthly Unique Users

There was a lot riding on the 27th UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. From pre-conference training sessions to loaning out our Portable Action Clocks and , the Climate Clock team was there to support our allies every step of the way as they urged world leaders to #ActinTime. Portable clocks were available to negotiators, observers, and activists, and could be spotted at several important events throughout the two-week conference.

We also unveiled the Climate Clock Tower at COP27 at the Innovation Zone entrance. Inspired by the ancient Lighthouse at Alexandria, this 12 meter LED clock served as a beacon of hope and a call to action, emphasizing our less-than-seven-year deadline and highlighting key climate solutions such as Renewable Energy, Indigenous Sovereignty and Loss & Damage Financing.

THE SOLUTION

Although the activists we were supporting each had their own individualized goals and targets, our actions generally aimed to get the clock in front of world leaders, UN delegates, and the media.

We needed urgent global action at COP27 to stop catastrophic climate change. Our demands included the following:

  • Reset the timeline: All stakeholders must shift existing targets beyond 2040, 2050 etc down to 2030, across all issue spaces.

  • Act Boldly: Delegates must advance climate action that is ambitious, accessible, and equitable as we shift towards implementation. 

  • Finance Loss and Damage: The Loss and Damage Climate Risk Finance framework must be finalized at COP27 so that we can increase funding aimed at averting, minimizing, and addressing losses and damages in vulnerable countries

  • “We need finance to address loss and damage, especially for the frontline communities in Africa and elsewhere that are most vulnerable and did the least to contribute to the climate change we are living right now.”

    Ineza Grace

    Loss & Damage Youth Coalition Coordinator, based in Rwanda

  • “The Climate Clock G7 & G20 Loss & Damage liability calculations are based on reliable data on historic emissions and defensible assumptions about the likely damage from emissions. This scenario draws on Center for Global Development research which looked in detail at the evidence on the full cost of emissions, how that has changed over time; and when emitter countries can reasonably be responsible for the damage their emissions have and will cause. This liability is an important consideration in the climate negotiations, particularly around finance for loss and damage.”

    Ian Mitchell

    Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development (CGD)

  • “Wealthier nations have a moral and financial obligation to repair the loss and damage their high emissions have inflicted on the “developing” world. With the UN predicting a billion climate refugees by 2050 if we fail to act in time, helping the most vulnerable nation’s transition to a sustainable economy is not just the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do.”

    Andrew Boyd

    Climate Clock Co-Creator

  • “Negotiators from wealthy nations are debating whether to pay $1 billion over here or over there, when the actual amount of Loss & Damage that they rightfully owe to impacted nations is closer to the order of $30 Trillion for G20 countries, or to narrow it down to the most wealthy G7 nations, is still at $15 Trillion. And it’s rising every day. The world needs a big shift in perspective.”

    Gan Golan

    Climate Clock Co-Creator

NEWS COVERAGE

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Photo at top: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Climate Emergency Day 2024. Taken by Jane Doe.