With the COP27 UN climate talks opening in Egypt, it will be the first time in six years that they have taken place on African soil.<\/p>
This year\u2019s event is being dubbed \u201cThe African COP,\u201d and the Egypt presidency set to spotlight the climate issues most relevant to African and other developing nations.<\/p>
Central to this will be the climate finance owed by the G20 countries to the developing world, alongside the delivery of finance for both climate change adaptation, and compensating countries for the loss and damage global warming will cause.<\/p>
The impacts of climate change have been increasingly apparent across the world this year, and the long-running drought that has blighted Eastern Africa and has left more than 23m people facing grave food shortages is a grim illustration of what the future might hold, if we don\u2019t agree to a global response to this crisis.<\/p>