44 Global News Post 1
Joseph Kimble
https://globalvoices.org/2022/11/08/egypts-systemic-greenwashing-is-sabotaging-cop27-before-it-begins/ by Sydney Allen
[Photo of Demonstrators protesting Egypt and its greenwashing of crimes ahead of the COP27 conference]. (2022).
This article reports on a news story from late last year and covers the coverage of events leading up to the COP27 conference being hosted in Egypt. It followed accounts from protesters and NGO officials about the protests and their comments on the response of the Egyptian government and its actions of barring activists from attending the conference.
The article discusses the majority negative response from activists as Egypt has silenced reports against humanitarian issues to present itself in a better image for the conference. The groups discussed whether the actions of Egypt and the actions they took to prevent local and international activists from protesting and attending the conference should be reason to not attend the conference, which focuses on combatting climate change.
The article included links to Humans Right Watch on actions by the Egyptian government to prevent activists from taking action. The article also included several links to tweets about the conference and the stories from activists and their interactions with Egyptian officials. One tweet included a story about an international activist who used the conference to protest climate change in general, not Egypt, who was detained and arrested without cause for 24 hours. These helped provide third party reports and primary sources that gave context to the events in the article.