FM, Environment Min. Hold Talks with UNFCCC Executive Secretary

Egypt and the United Nations (UN) stressed, on Saturday, the importance to continue enhancing various countries' nationally determined contributions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

This came during Egypt's Foreign Minister (FM) Sameh Shoukry, the President-Designate of the incoming United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP27), and Environment minister Yasmine Fouad's meeting with Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The meeting aims to discuss several priority issues within the framework of the international climate, especially with regard to adaptation to climate change, mitigating its negative effects, and providing climate finance.

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Moreover, the officials underlined the need to encourage various parties, especially civil society in developing and developed countries alike, to actively engage in international climate action.

The meeting highlighted the importance of the recent visit by Shoukry to the headquarters of the Executive Secretariat of the UNFCCC in the German city of Bonn, last February, within the framework of Egypt's ongoing preparations for hosting the COP27 conference, scheduled to be held in Sharm El Sheikh in November, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Hafez tweeted.