Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived at the International Convention Center in Sharm el-Sheikh for the opening of COP27, the United Nations climate conference. The prime minister was received by the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, and by the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al Sisi.
Today and tomorrow, the leaders’ summit will be the first highlight of the controversial appointment in Egypt: a total of 125 participants, including heads of state and government, as well as diplomats from up to 200 countries and the record number of 40,000 in the presence of representatives of NGOs, civil society, academics, private sector, rights defenders. The return to the UN summit in Brazil is highly anticipated, after 4 years of skepticism by far-right president Jair Bolsonaro regarding climate change: election winner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was invited, although he takes office in January 2023. The future leftist president has already assured that he wants to return to the forefront of the fight against climate change, protecting the Amazon, one of the main green lungs of the planet. Just thirty years ago, in 1992, the Rio Earth Summit took place, a date that has gone down in history for the defense of ecosystems. Among the highlights of the summit, US President Joe Biden, the new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the President of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia, will be present for Italy.
Melons. Among the outstanding absences is that of the president of China – the most polluting country in the world – Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Source: IL Tempo
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