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Egypt to host COP27 international climate conference in 2022 -ministry

Tuvalu's Minister for Justice, Communication & Foreign Affairs Simon Kofe gives a COP26 statement while standing in the ocean in Funafuti, Tuvalu November 5, 2021. Courtesy Tuvalu's Ministry of Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs / Social Media via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. MANDATORY CREDIT TUVALU'S MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, COMMUNICATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
By Reuters
11 Nov 2021
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CAIRO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Egypt was officially selected to host the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in 2022, the country's environment ministry said on Thursday.

The North African country will held the conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, it added. (Reporting by Mahmoud Mourad Editing by Chris Reese)

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  • Craig King says:
    12 November 2021 at 13:09

    Surely after 26 failures and semi-failures it’s time to try something different surely. Unless COP meetings are the raison d’ĂŞtre and need to stretch off into the very misty future so as to give employment and cause to the tens of thousands of bureaucrats involved.

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