{"id":3493429,"date":"2022-01-20T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T08:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/france-aims-for-a-true-ecological-sovereignty-for-europe-at-informal-eu-talks-copy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:48:33","slug":"egypt-names-foreign-minister-sameh-shoukry-to-lead-cop27-climate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/egypt-names-foreign-minister-sameh-shoukry-to-lead-cop27-climate-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt names foreign minister Sameh Shoukry to lead Cop27 climate talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egypt names foreign minister Sameh Shoukry to lead Cop27 climate talks<\/p>\n

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The Egyptian government has chosen foreign minister Sameh Shoukry to lead the Cop27 climate talks in Sharm El-Sheikh in November. The country\u2019s environment minister Yasmine Fouad, a climate scientist, will be Cop27 \u201cministerial coordinator and envoy\u201d. <\/span>Their appointments were announced in a joint statement with the UK after they met with Cop26 president Alok Sharma.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Shoukry has no significant experience or expressed interest in climate change, Fouad was lead author on a chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s special report on desertification in 2017 and co-chaired finance talks at Cop26 in November. Fouad has worked for UN organisations, NGOs and universities and is a veteran of the environment ministry, having become the deputy minister in 2014 and promoted to the top job in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the 26 Cop summits, 21 have been chaired by men. At every summit, there have been more male delegates than female. Shoukry is a career diplomat who worked his way up to become then-president Hosni Mubarak\u2019s ambassador to Washington in 2008, a job he held on to until 2012 despite the Arab Spring uprisings. <\/span>After Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seized power to become president in 2014, he brought Shoukry back into government as foreign minister.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2008, the US ambassador to Geneva Warren Tichenor described Shoukry, then his Egyptian counterpart, as being \u201caggressive\u201d, \u201cheavy-handed\u201d, \u201ccurt and rude\u201d. In a confidential message later revealed by Wikileaks, Tichenor said Shoukry had an \u201cactivist and at times aggressive approach to Geneva multilateral diplomacy, in pursuit of goals the US does not support\u201d. <\/span>Writing to his successor in the job, Tichenor said Shoukry spoke excellent English and some Spanish, \u201ccan be charming\u201d and a \u201cgracious host\u201d who \u201creminisces fondly about his years in grade school in the Washington DC area\u201d. <\/span>But \u201ceven in his personal comportment, he reveals moments of heavy-handedness, as in the derisive way in which he treats his driver\u201d and being \u201ccurt and rude\u201d to visitors to his office brought by the US mission.<\/span><\/p>\n

After being chosen as Cop27 host by the African Group, Egypt promised to make resilience and adaptation to the effects of climate change its priority. In a climate plan submitted to the UN in 2017, Egypt outlined the country\u2019s vulnerability to heatwaves, flooding and water scarcity from climate change. It did not quantify an emissions target. <\/span>Under the Paris Agreement, countries were supposed to raise the ambition of their climate plans by 2020. Egypt has yet to do so. <\/span><\/p>\n

A 2020 Ipsos Mori poll found that awareness of climate change is lower in Egypt than in other North African countries. Just 26% of Egyptians said climate change \u201cexists and is mostly caused by human activity\u201d. In Morocco, which has hosted two Cop summits, that figure was 71%.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Source:<\/b> Climate Home News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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