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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Edmund Bower

African countries urge rich nations to honour $100bn climate finance pledge

Five VIPs stand on a stage in a convention centre in front of a line of flags
From left, Ève Bazaiba, deputy PM of the DRC; Amina Mohammed, UN deputy secretary general; DRC PM Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge; Sameh Shoukry, Egypt’s foreign minister; and Wael Aboulmagd, Egypt’s Cop27 envoy at the Kinshasa meeting. Photograph: Courtesy - Précop27 RDC


Ministers and high-ranking officials of African nations have urged rich countries to do more to combat the climate crisis, and called the failure to meet a funding promise from 2009 “shameful”.

At a conference in Giza, Egypt, on Wednesday in the run-up to next month’s UN climate summit, Wael Aboulmagd, Egypt’s special representative for Cop27, attacked wealthier nations for not honouring an agreement to provide $100bn (£87.5bn) a year to developing countries by 2020.

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