Undoubtedly, during this COP27, two fundamental and priority issues were acknowledged, one of them being environmental justice. Thousands of young people from all over the

COP 25 held in Madrid has been a major disappointment. The failure of this landmark international event comes at a time when the world is faced with critical choices for bringing within limits the risks associated with the impacts of climate change.

The recent floods that have afflicted the city of Venice highlight the risks that sea level rise would impose on low lying areas across the world, of which Venice as a city ranks among the most vulnerable.

It is now quite clear that we would have to limit average warming of the earth’s temperature to below 1.5oC by 2100 relative to preindustrial periods. This would require peaking of global emissions no later than 2020. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was released in 2007 had clearly specified 2020