The UN COP27 summit gets underway today in Egypt, the one that marks the debut on the world political scene of Giorgia Meloni as Italian premier.

The meeting focuses on various themes, first of all the climate . Over the past eight years, our planet has experienced “boiling” temperatures, but some progress has been made to protect the environment on how to bear the costs of damage caused by global warming and mitigation actions.

The issue of the “loss and damage” fund was officially included in the agenda by the works . This is a mechanism that has been discussed for decades and which now the Egyptian presidency, after intense debates in the past 48 hours, has managed to put at least as a topic to be discussed in the works in view of the key days.

Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian foreign minister, at the opening of the summit said he was convinced that a final decision on the issue will come no later than 2024. There are hundreds of billions of dollars a year (estimates vary considerably) at stake. from various states more exposed to increasingly frequent climatic disasters (floods, droughts, rising oceans) and which they attribute to the emissions that have been caused in recent decades by the most industrialized countries.

In the message sent by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres , he is remembered as "while COP27 is underway, our planet sends a signal of suffering. The latest report on the state of the global climate is the chronicle of climate chaos. the World Meteorological Organization clearly shows, change is happening at catastrophic speed, devastating lives and livelihoods on every continent. "

(Unioneonline / ss)