Parliamentary Delegations from 60 Countries Discuss Climate Change Crises in Egypt

Parliamentary Delegations from 60 Countries Discuss Climate Change Crises in Egypt

The eighth Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians kicked off on Wednesday in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt’s South Sinai province.

Parliamentary delegations from 60 countries have taken part in the two-day event, which is held under the auspices of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and in cooperation with the Egyptian House of Representatives and the IPU.

It focuses on legislative, legal, and developmental approaches to climate change issues.

Egypt will host the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2022 in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in November. World leaders and heads of state and governments are expected to attend the summit.

Egypt's Speaker of the House of Representatives Hanafi El Jebali said during the inauguration session that critical global conditions require involving the youth to address the extraordinary challenges.

The climate change issue is an exceptional, precarious and multidimensional challenge that have certain negative impacts, Jebali noted, underlining the need to address this imminent danger.

According to the IPU administration, it is the first time that a country holds a separate parliamentary conference a few months before hosting a COP summit.

It stressed that this reflects Egypt’s determination to mobilize an organized and just global effort at all governmental and legislative levels to