Egypt officially selected to host COP27

The next United Nations conference on climate change COP27 will be held in Egypt, said the country’s environment ministry on Thursday.

The climate conference will be held in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, in the extreme south of the Sinai Peninsula, the same source said.

Egypt had announced its candidacy on November 2, during the work of the 26th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations on climate change (COP26) in Glasgow (United Kingdom).

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had declared, in September, his country’s interest in hosting the COP27.

The North African country would work to make the conference “a radical turning point in international climate efforts in coordination with all parties, for the benefit of Africa and the entire world,” he had said at the time.