United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres arrived back in Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday to push for an ambitious outcome, warning countries that it was crunch time”.
“IT am here to appeal to all parties to rise to this moment and to the greatest challenge that humanity is facing,” Mr Guterres said at a solemn briefing with Egypt’s Cop27 president, Sameh Shoukry. The world is watching and has a simple message to all of us: stand and deliver. Deliver the kind of meaningful climate action that people and the planet so desperately need.”
Mr Shoukry said that progress was lacking on a number of issues with persisting divergent views amongst parties”. The secretary-general listed the major sticking points, beginning with the issue of loss and damage.
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