African countries urge rich nations to honour $100bn climate finance pledge

Ministers rebuke shameful' failure to meet funding promises for poorer countries to cope with climate crisis ahead of Cop27 summit

Ministers and high-ranking officials of African nations have urged rich countries to do more to combat the climate crisis, and called the failure to meet a funding promise from 2009 shameful".

At a conference in Giza, Egypt, on Wednesday in the run-up to next month's UN climate summit, Wael Aboulmagd, Egypt's special representative for Cop27, attacked wealthier nations for not honouring an agreement to provide $100bn (87.5bn) a year to developing countries by 2020.