The United Nations presented a document of thanks for the role and efforts of the Egyptian state for hosting and organising COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressing his great happiness at the success of the organisational work carried out by the Egyptian youth volunteers.
The Secretary-General was keen to take a group photo of the Egyptian volunteers and the United Nations Secretariat awarded them certificates of appreciation in honour of their active role in the success of the summit.
This year, Egypt hosted the climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, which has become a prominent global centre for international conferences. The summit was attended by large number of participants from all over the world. It achieved many goals and results. It also highlighted several unprecedented aspects of excellence, since the entry of the Framework Convention on Climate into force in March 1994, which was followed by the first Conference of the Parties COP1 in Berlin, to COP26 in Glasgow, and finally COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The summit witnessed several important meetings between world leaders. Fruitful negotiations took place between the parties to the climate conference.
A series of discussion sessions were also held on environment and climate issues. Many environmentally friendly projects, initiatives and artworks were also presented.
The summit attracted great interest and wide international participation, with a total attendance of about 66,000 people.
The Egyptian state was also keen to lead and enhance African participation in this summit, in which the largest average number of African delegations in the history of the COP summits participated.
In addition, COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh distinguished itself from the previous COP26 in Glasgow, with the largest average number of registered delegates for both Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries.
Egypt was keen to provide a vast area of 30,416 square metres. The international exhibitions in the blue area of the International Conference Centre in Sharm El Sheikh included twice the number of exhibitions in the previous COP26.
Also, 627 sessions and events were held in the Blue Zone of the United Nations. Egypt, as the COP27 host country, organised several events under the supervision of the Organising Committee of the World Youth Forum, where 197 sessions and events were held in the Green Zone.
COP27 was unique compared to previous summits, by moving from the stage of “promises” to “implementation.” In this respect, the efforts of the Egyptian state succeeded in mediating between the participating countries to reach a historic agreement on funds allocated to confront the effects of climate change in order to serve the interests of all countries of the world, especially African and developing countries.
For the first time, children sit on the podium at COP27 to express their vision for the future of the world and the rights of future generations to live in a safe and healthy natural environment.
Women also had a prominent role in the summit with the participation of the largest number of girls and women in the history of climate conferences.
On the level of civil society, the second largest number of non-governmental organisations in the history of the conferences participated in the COP27 summit, with a total of 11,711 participants from 1,715 organisations, while the largest participation of civil society was in COP15 with 12,048 organisations, during 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh attracted the attention of the international media, as 3,350 representatives of about 1,306 media organisations registered to attend the summit, and this is the second largest number of media representatives participating in previous conferences.
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