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From: Sr K11/7/2022 10:32:30 AM
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Several key world leaders will not be in attendance at a convention center on the shores of the Red Sea: Xi Jinping of China, the world’s largest emitter, nor Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, whose emissions are expected to grow sharply alongside its economy.

Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, whose war on Ukraine is financed by the country’s fossil fuel riches, is not coming either.

But Russia’s military aggression and the global energy and food crisis it has unleashed loom large. Without naming any countries, Egypt’s foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, urged that the nations of the world not let “political tensions” get in the way of addressing climate crisis. “We need to prove the contrary,” he told delegates at the opening ceremony on Sunday.

“Climate change and its impacts are existential,” he added.
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