Environmentally-friendly projects qualify Egypt to host COP27

Published 16 Nov,2021 via Daily News Egypt - The Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change announced on Thursday that Egypt has been chosen as a representative of Africa to host the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention COP27, which is expected to be held in November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh.

On September 20, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi expressed his country’s interest in hosting the COP27 summit on behalf of the African continent, a desire that met with international support, especially from the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, the host country in the current COP26 session.

The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is considered the largest and most important international environmental event in the world every year. The delegations of member states to the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Climate Agreement meet to discuss, consult and negotiate controversial issues within the framework of the implementation of international agreements related to climate change.