Looking back at COP 27 from a data perspective
Between 6 and 18 November 2022, the Government of the Arab Republic of
Egypt hosted the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties
[https://cop27.eg/#/] (COP 27) in Sharm El- Sheikh
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharm_El_Sheikh]. At COP 27, countries
came together towards achieving the world's collective climate
goals as agreed upon under the Paris Agreement
[https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement]
and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
[https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/what-is-the-united-nations-framework-convention-on-climate-change].


Below some of the highlights of the conference in relation to data and
its role in the fight against climate change.

 	* The Egyptian government launched its first Vulnerability
Assessment Map, which reviews and displays climate-related weaknesses
using complex socio-demographic environmental and medical data. The
Map is to help plan and manage human-induced climate change. 
 	* Several speakers stressed how developing a systematic approach to
data is essential to allow informed policy decisions about climate
change. The President of COP 27, Sameh Shoukry in particular affirmed
that ´Science plays a key role in informing the climate process,
providing critical evidence and numbers to build a case for action and
the imperative of implementation`. 
 	* Systems Change Lab [https://systemschangelab.org/] unveiled a new
open-source data platform and discussed the latest findings from
the State of Climate Action 2022
[https://newclimate.org/resources/publications/state-of-climate-action-2022]
that provides an overview of how the climate crisis is dealt with. 
 	* COP27 Global Stocktake Climate Datathon
[https://www.openearth.org/cop27-datathon] discussed the role of data
in the Global Stocktake, to achieve the objectives of the Paris
Agreement
[https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement].


To learn more about how data can open ways and speed up the process to
neutralise climate, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, improve
energy efficiency, and restore biodiversity, please refer to our
recently published data story
[https://data.europa.eu/en/datastories/open-data-achieve-eu-green-transition].
Besides this, you can also consult the nearly 16 000 datasets
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&minScoring=0&query=climate&page=1]
related to climate available on data.europa.eu.

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Addressing climate change with open data