About 90 heads of state have confirmed attendance at November's COP27 climate negotiations in Egypt where they will address issues including energy transition and food security at opening sessions, a senior Egyptian official said on Monday.
"We've received a large number of confirmations from around the world, I think the last count was about 90 heads of state but the numbers keep coming in," said Wael Aboulmagd, special representative for the COP27 presidency, without mentioning specific countries.
Topics for leaders' roundtables held on Nov. 7-8 would include the development of green hydrogen, water and food security, achieving a just energy transition towards renewables, and vulnerable communities, Aboulmagd said. "We strongly believe that we need all the political will and momentum and direction coming from heads of state to push the process forward, because it has become a very, very adversarial process," Aboulmagd said.how to include "loss and damage" - compensation to climate-vulnerable countries already suffering from climate-related weather extremes - on the summit's formal agenda.