Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh for the United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change.
The convention will run for 13 days, and will be attended by delegates from 197 countries that are bound by the Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change.
Delivering his remarks at the opening plenary of the 27th edition of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Egypt Sunday, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell, has said the global body will be holding world leaders and people to account in order to make their policies align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Convention.
“We will be holding people to account, be they presidents, prime ministers or CEOs, accountability
chief to make our policies, our businesses on infrastructure in order for our actions, even personal or the public must be aligned with the Paris agreements and with the convention,” Mr Stiell said.
This is the first COP in Africa since COP22 was held in Morocco in 2016. It’s been dubbed the “African COP,” in focus as well as location, as African countries face some of the worst impacts of climate change.
COP 26 was held in Glasgow, the UK, from October 31 to November 12 last year.
An agreement was adopted in Paris in December 2015, and operationalised in November 2016.
It seeks to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius.
