Climate change remains most dangerous existential threat facing the world: Sisi

CAIRO – 21 September 2022: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said that politics, food, and energy crisis are affecting all parts of the world and considered to be global challenges nowadays. He also noted that climate change remains the most dangerous existential challenge that face the world.

He added during his recorded speech at the closed meeting of Heads of State and Governments on Climate Change, that these challenges, undoubtedly, represent additional burdens on all of the countries, especially the developing ones.

However, Sisi added “We must always count on objective scientific reports and studies, which unequivocally confirm that climate change remains the most dangerous existential challenge facing our planet and that its repercussions are exacerbating. Day by day, with each rise in temperature.”

“About a year ago, we participated together in this meeting, in preparation for the UK Climate Summit, and now, we are a few weeks away, from the 27th Climate Summit [COP27], which Egypt is hosting in Sharm El Sheikh.” Sisi said.

He noted that what was witnessed recently in Pakistan in terms of floods that left unprecedented destruction and loss of life, along with the forest fires witnessed by the European continent and the United States, as a result of high temperatures, is a “painful warning of what will be the future of our children and grandchildren, unless we move quickly.”

During his speech, President Sisi presented Egypt's vision for the elements of the message that the world is waiting from the gathered leaders in New York to pave the way towards achieving tangible results in Sharm El-Sheikh.

The vision included, firstly: “We as an international community, regardless of any global circumstance or political dispute, will not retreat from the commitments we have accepted, the pledges we made, nor the policies we have pursued, and have already made important gains in confronting climate change.”

Sisi added that: “Second - We, as world leaders, are fully aware that the amount of effort expended does not meet what is required to be achieved and that we will take all necessary measures to implement our pledges”

Sisi highlighted thirdly that the international community, should be fully aware of the burden placed on the developing and least developed countries and what they must face to fulfill their climate commitments, while continuing development efforts and eradicating poverty, in light of two unprecedented food and energy crises.