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South Africa has congratulated the Egyptian COP27 Presidency on the release of the draft outcomes text to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

It reflects the urgency of the climate crisis and the need to keep the one point five degree temperature increase target alive by providing a clear programme to advance the mitigation agenda from now to 2030.

It reflects the urgency of the climate crisis and the need to keep the 1.5-degree temperature target alive during what the IPCC calls the “Critical Decade”, including by providing a clear programme to advance the mitigation agenda from now to 2030.COP27 was extended to today amid tough debate about a number of issues including compensation for poor countries that have not caused climate change – but that are being devastated by the phenomenon.

COP27 is providing critical momentum to reform the Multilateral Development Banks and International Financial Institutions and we expect the shareholders of these institutions to take decisive action to scale-up climate finance in 2023.“We are quite encouraged by the draft text that has come out. The draft commits to developing new financial arrangements for loss and damage. There will be the establishment of the transitional committee that will look at sources of funding.

This is an essential step towards implementation of the Adaptation Goal and we have agreed to focus on specific sectors, including: Health, poverty and livelihoods; Terrestrial and freshwater

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