The head of state participates in the conference

COP27 begins with appeals to discuss compensation for climate change damages

Sameh Shoukry, President of COP27, speaking during the opening session in Sharm El-Sheikh.

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His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, will participate in the 27th session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), which is being held in Sharm El-Sheikh in the sisterly Arab Republic of Egypt.

The conference - which started yesterday and will continue until November 18 with the participation of world leaders, heads of government, representatives of international bodies and civil societies - will discuss many issues and files related to strengthening international efforts to confront climate change and limit its negative effects, and how to ensure sustainable development and energy security simultaneously. With effective climate action alongside countries' commitments and initiatives on sustainability solutions and other topics.

The work of the COP27 conference began yesterday, with the participation of delegates from more than 190 countries and representatives of regional and international organizations concerned with environment and climate affairs, where it was agreed to discuss and formally include financing the damages caused by climate change on the agenda of the conference.

The conference began with a procedural session in which COP26 President Alok Sharma handed over the presidency of the conference to Egypt, announcing the election of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry as COP27 president.

In his speech during the opening session, Sharma wished the new president of the conference success in leading international action efforts to confront climate change.

"Either we succeed or we fail because of financing, and we must do more to set goals beyond 2025, and I remain optimistic despite that," Sharma said, stressing that there is an international consensus on the need for cooperation to confront climate change.

The opening and plenary session of the COP27 Summit affirmed that November 6 is the beginning of a new era and the implementation of the agreement reached at the 2015 Paris Summit and the commitments of the 2021 Glasgow Summit and Sharm El Sheikh is the era of implementation, so the time has come.

The session indicated that there are efforts being made to confront climate change, but it is not enough. It called on everyone to find the ability to focus on facing the challenges of climate change, and that world leaders at their summit today should explain the future course of facing climate challenges.

The session revealed that 24 countries submitted climate modernization plans, calling on the remaining 173 countries to turn negotiations into concrete actions and limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Sameh Shoukry delivered a speech after assuming the presidency of COP27, in which he said, "COP27 is the international, most important and largest event ever."

Shoukry added, "We have to complete the path towards goals that we have agreed upon and results that we must reach, as Egypt is determined to continue the path of confronting climate change with strength."

Shoukry said that the Sharm el-Sheikh summit is to implement countries' pledges, pointing out that world leaders will come today to express their firm commitment to efforts to confront climate change.

Delegates at COP27 yesterday agreed to discuss whether rich countries should compensate poor countries most affected by climate change.

The diplomats agreed to add a more controversial item to the summit agenda related to financing arrangements to address losses and damages associated with the negative consequences of climate change.

After the opening of the conference, more than 120 heads of state and government will meet today, Monday and Tuesday, at a summit that will give impetus to these two-week negotiations.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to call at the COP27 summit not to renege on the promise to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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