Cop27 summit must focus on how world will adapt to climate change, says UN envoy

Mahmoud Mohieldin tells Sydney audience Egypt talks will need to get from summits to solutions' amid increasing wild weather

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Mahmoud Mohieldin, the United Nations climate change high-level champion for Egypt, says November's Cop27 summit must focus on adapting to life in a changing climate and grapple with finance for loss and damage given the increasing frequency of extreme weather events.

Mohieldin told the Sydney Energy Forum on Wednesday adaptation had been forgotten for many years" at UN climate conferences because of a generous assumption that we are going to be doing fantastically well on mitigation, so nobody should worry about adaptation".