Cairo Warns of Impact of Food, Energy Crises on Climate Change

Cairo Warns of Impact of Food, Energy Crises on Climate Change

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the president-designate of the upcoming UN climate change conference, has warned of the impact of challenges posed by the global food and energy crises on climate change.

In remarks published by Bloomberg news agency on Sunday, Shoukry said his country will prevent all what could impact the level of ambition and might lead to distractions of the climate change priority.

Egypt will host the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference 2022 in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh in November.

As the first African country to host a COP meeting in six years, Shoukry affirmed that Cairo also wants to focus on how developing nations can get funding to adapt to the changing climate and to finance the green energy transition.

“The conference is going to be held in a difficult geo-political situation, with the world facing energy and food challenges,” he said in written answers to questions.

The FM stressed that his country wants to ensure there’s no backtracking on past commitments to slow the pace of climate change — even as global leaders grapple with food shortages, an energy crisis and high inflation.

The main focus of COP27 is to “raise ambition” and confirm “no backsliding or backtracking