Achieving climate justice, safeguarding planetary health: Diagnosis and demands from next generation leaders for COP27 and beyond

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We are next generation leaders coming from the climate justice, medicine and public health, and planetary health movements, representing Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA), which are groups and territories disproportionately affected by the climate crisis -women, Indigenous Peoples, racialised people, LGBTQ+ people, young, and those facing social deprivation, and the Global South.Each time the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is held, our presence is sought, our faces shown on television, broadsheets and social media, our voices, through speeches and interventions (temporarily) projected, yet ultimately ignored, and our spaces rather assigned, mostly in side events and in the streets.Once the conference is over, our dreams and demands are almost totally and automatically forgotten, as high-profile delegates return to their countries in private jets and business class seats -and to business as usual.For decades, the world's governments have been negotiating about our future -without us.Haunted by past experience, there is a high risk that the upcoming COP27, which is to be hosted by Egypt in November 2022, may not be any different from the previous COPs, where excitement and ambition are instantly trumped by the power and influence of short-term interests and corporate greed.For instance, many were anticipating last year's COP26 held in Glasgow as a possible watershed moment for climate action, as the COVID-19 pandemic provided a "sneak preview" of deleterious human consequences of shocks and stresses that crises

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