Environmentalists, pressure groups and other stakeholders are applauding the decision to provide loss and damage funding for vulnerable countries hard hit by climate disasters.
President Hage Geingob has returned home from the COP27 global climate summit in Egypt, where he joined other world leaders to discuss how countries around the world should accelerate their efforts in combating climate change and bring it under control.
President Hage Geingob says it is regrettable that only US$23 billion has been committed to the Green Climate Fund thus far, as developing countries continue to battle the effects of climate change.
World leaders, including President Hage Geingob, are attending the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as the Conference of the Parties or COP27, are pressing for urgent implementation of previously agreed plans.
President Hage Geingob left for Egypt on Sunday to attend the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27). The conference, which will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh from the 6th to the 18th of November, will push leaders to commit to achieving a zero-carbon future for all.
A total of N$1.2 million was raised for the COP27 conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The conference will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from November 6–18.
