Bristol mayor Marvin Rees will travel to Egypt next week for a climate conference and try to raise cash from investors. He said at COP27 he would be representing not just Bristol, but also other UK cities and “cities all over the world” to get investment in climate projects.
Each year the United Nations hosts a global climate summit, called the Conference of Parties (COP), to get countries around the world to work together on tackling climate change. Last year, COP26 was held in Glasgow, and this year the summit will be in Sharm El Sheikh. Mr Rees said the annual climate summit was increasingly about finding investors to help pay for climate projects like district heat networks or underground metro systems, during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, November 1.
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