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Egypt's Shoukry Holds Tripartite Talks with Danish Climate Policies Min., COP28 President


Mon 20 Mar 2023 | 01:17 PM
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On Monday, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry, President of the COP27 Climate Conference, held a tripartite meeting with the Danish Minister of Development Cooperation and Climate Policies Dan Jorgenson, and Dr. Sultan Al-Jaber, the appointed president of the next session of the COP28 conference.

In a statement, Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the meeting comes on the sidelines of the Copenhagen Ministerial Meeting on Climate.

The Copenhagen meeting, hosted by Denmark, is being held under the co-chairmanship of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, given that Egypt is the chair of the current session of the United Nations Climate Conference, and that the United Arab Emirates is the next chair of the conference. 

Notabl, negotiators from nearly 200 countries at the COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt took the historic step of agreeing to set up a “loss and damage” fund meant to help vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters and agreed the globe needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions nearly in half by 2030. 

It has marked the first time countries and groups, including longtime holdouts like the United States and the EU, have agreed to establish a fund for nations vulnerable to climate disasters made worse by pollution disproportionately produced by wealthy, industrialized nations.

Negotiators and non-governmental organizations observing the talks praised the deal as a significant achievement, after developing nations and small island countries banded together to amplify pressure.