COPENHAGEN – Egypt’s Foreign Minister and president-designate of the 2022 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Summit (COP27) Sameh Shoukri participated in a ministerial meeting hosted by Denmark on May 12-13 on climate commitments, Foreign Ministry Spokesman ambassador Ahmed Hafez said.
In statements Thursday, the spokesman said the Egyptian minister delivered Egypt’s speech during the gathering’s opening session, affirming that the meeting offered an opportunity on exchanging views and expertise regarding ways to implement the international climate action plan, through activating Paris UN Framework Convention on Climate.
The event also meant to help all parties to the agreement to meet their pledges pertaining to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, together with all commitments to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted by Glasgow Climate Pact, the spokesman added.
Shoukri underscored the great priority Egypt would be attaching to fulfilling all climate change-related commitments during COP27, as well as changing all pledges on this score into reality, he said.
The foreign minister also voiced hope the meeting would help assess the current situation and work out a mechanism towards realising the outcome of Paris UN Framework Convention on Climate.
UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and former head of the COP26 Alok Sharma and Danish Minister of Climate and Energy and Public Utilities Dan Jorgensen, Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a number of minsters and representatives of the civil society took part in the meeting.
Egypt will host COP27 in November this year in South Sinai’s Sharm El-Sheikh city. During the stage of preparations for the conference, Egypt has vowed to speak for Africa’s aspirations to face climate change, build on the successful outcomes of COP26 in Glasgow, turn climate pledges into actions and support Paris Agreement.
