Egypt’s Foreign Minister and President Designate of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) Sameh Shoukry at the 2022 annual meetings of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB). Cabinet
Shoukry was speaking in a session titled ‘The Path to COP27’ organised as part of the 2022 annual meetings of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB), currently in session in the Red Sea city of Sharm El-Sheikh.
Shoukry added that is Egypt exerting its utmost efforts to ensure the success of COP27 – which is set to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh in November – but this depends on all parties being aware of the fact that “we are all engaged on the same path.”
Funding dedicated to combating climate change should be boosted and all relevant stakeholders should be engaged in this action, Shoukry said.
The FM highlighted the huge funding gap affecting developing countries in particular, saying that despite the progress achieved so far, the road towards meeting the needs of all countries is long.
The huge funding gap between developing and developed countries, especially in Africa, is one of the major issues Egypt has been raising in conferences related to climate change in the past few years.
Egypt has vowed to address the needs of the African continent to confront climate change at COP27.
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