Shoukry Meets with AGN on Climate Change in Bonn

On Wednesday, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the President-designate of the 2022 UN Climate Change Summit (COP27), met with the African Group of Negotiators on climate change (AGN) in Bonn, Germany.

The meeting was in conjunction with the 56th session of the subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Ambassador Ahmed Hafez, the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry stated that during the meeting, Shoukry indicated Egypt’s keenness, in light of its hosting of the COP27 next November, to put African concerns in the climate change file at the forefront of the topics that will be addressed by this session.

He pointed out that Africa is the most affected continent by negative repercussions of climate change, despite it being the least contributor to emissions, noting that in the same regard the difficulties that African countries still face in obtaining climate finance needed to deal with these repercussions

Shoukry is also concerned to review the Egyptian presidency’s vision on the COP27, pointing that the presidency’s interest to achieve consensus among the various parties concerned with international climate change, especially with regard to issues of adaption to climate change, reducing its negative repercussions, addressing losses and damages, and providing climate finance.

The spokesperson concluded his statements by the foreign minister who affirmed the priority given by the upcoming Egyptian presidency to the COP27 to the issue of implementing climate pledges and transforming them into a tangible reality on the ground.

Whether regard to fulfilling the nationally determined contributors or implementing the commitments and pledges announced by the various parties concerned with climate action.