This article was written by Irene Vivas Lalinde with additions and edits by Stefanie Berendsen and Klāvs Veseļuns. I wake up in a foreign city that somehow feels familiar. I recognise the light of the Mediterranean periphery and the flowers on the terrace. In Cairo, new streets appear daily to accommodate the 21 million inhabitants….
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Does COP27 matter? 🤔
Naomi Klein recently claimed that COP27 is “greenwashing a police state.” I agree. So why am I going? Why, with the Young European Greens, am I organising a delegation of eight people to go there? What do we hope to achieve? In 2011, Egypt was a burning flame of hope in the Arab Spring. The…