Ashraf AboArafe
Today, June 10, Mr. Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the current session of the COP27 Climate Conference, chaired a virtual meeting of the Bureau of the Conference, on the sidelines of the ongoing meetings in Bonn, Germany, of the two subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, concerned with providing scientific and technological advice and implementing climate pledges.
In a statement by Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zaid, the official spokesman and director of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he indicated that the meeting witnessed the participation of the members of the bureau representing the various geographical groups of the framework agreement, Mr. Simon Steel, the executive secretary of the agreement, and representatives of the UAE presidency team for the next session of the COP28 conference. During the meeting, the Minister of Foreign Affairs praised the important role of the bureau, along with the executive secretariat, in addressing priority climate action issues and the successful preparation of climate conferences and ensuring their outcome with results that enhance climate action at various levels, noting the opportunity that the meetings of the two subsidiary bodies represent. To evaluate the course of implementing the outputs of the Sharm el-Sheikh conference and build on the successes achieved during it.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman added that Mr. Sameh Shoukry dealt with the ongoing work to implement the outcomes of the COP27 Climate Conference, which Egypt hosted last November, especially with regard to activating the Fund for Financing Efforts to Address Loss and Damage Resulting from Climate Change and Achieving the Global Goal of Adaptation to Climate Change, explaining in this In this regard, two meetings of the Transition Committee on Climate Change Losses and Damages were held, in addition to holding the first dialogue and investment forum on the climate change mitigation action program, as well as the organization of the first workshop on the just energy transition work program.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman concluded his remarks by revealing that the Bureau’s meeting dealt with a number of priority issues in the field of international climate action, on top of which is the status and course of the current climate negotiations during the work of the two subsidiary bodies, as the Foreign Minister stressed the importance that the Egyptian presidency attaches to the conference to address the concerns of the various parties. The ongoing preparation at the substantive, organizational and logistical levels for the next session of the Climate Conference, which is scheduled to be held in the UAE at the end of this year, was also reviewed, with which Minister Shoukry affirmed the Egyptian presidency’s keenness for COP27 for the success of the next conference and its outcome with the desired results.
