UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Won’t Attend Cop27 Climate Summit: Downing Street
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will not be attending the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt next month, Downing Street has confirmed.
A Number 10 spokeswoman said on Oct. 27: “The prime minister is not expected to attend Cop27 and this is due to other pressing domestic commitments including preparations for the Autumn Budget. The UK will be fully represented by other senior ministers as well as the Cop president Alok Sharma.”
Liz Truss, Sunak’s predecessor, had been expected to attend the U.N. climate conference to be held in Sharm el Sheikh.
Downing Street insisted that Sunak’s absence from the summit does not signal a downgrading of climate change as a priority by his government….