SHARM AL SHEIKH, Egypt: U. S. weather envoyU. S. Secretary of State John Kerry tested positive for COVID-19 at U. N. climate talks in Egypt, a spokeswoman said that it expired Friday night, the latest setback because of what appeared to be stalled talks already underway. Overtime.
“He is fully vaccinated and reinforced and has mild symptoms. He is working with his negotiating team and his foreign colleagues by phone to ensure the good fortune of COP27,” spokeswoman Whitney Smith wrote in a delayed statement Friday.
Kerry’s illness is sure to add to considerations about the negotiations, which were due to end Friday but continued with no transparent end in sight. Kerry, former U. S. senator and secretary of state, foreign conversations.
The negotiations, at least those held in public, had a moment of calm on Friday afternoon, with press meetings and plenary sessions postponed or cancelled. Diplomats said they expected progress until the evening as they replaced airline bookings with protracted talks in Egypt.
Delegates said that progress had been made, particularly on the most complicated point. This is the “loss and damage” factor, which is the concept of some kind of reimbursement, a committed fund or something less formal, from rich countries to deficient countries. already hit hard by extreme weather events aggravated by decades of burning fossil fuels in developed countries.
“I think we’re on time,” said David Waskow, director of outdoor weather at the World Resources Institute. “Loss and grief are central to what you want to do to cross the end line. “
“We’re very busy and they’re making progress and they’ve clarified all positions,” Molwyn Joseph, speaking on behalf of the small island states, told The Associated Press.
“It’s imaginable we’ll get a result, but it can also fail at the last minute,” New Zealand weather minister James Shaw said. “And I think if that happened, it would be a real disgrace because it’s as close (in terms of loss and damage) as never before. “
Nakeeyat Dramani Sam of Ghana rebuked delegates at this year’s UN climate talks, who would act faster to curb global warming if they were their age.
“This is an emergency,” he told negotiators, holding a sign that read “Back Payment. “”If you were all young people like me, wouldn’t you have agreed by now to do whatever it takes to save our planet?
But after his standing ovation, it is the step back of nations arguing over several thorny issues, and the Egyptian presidency acknowledged that the talks would move to additional time on Saturday, if not longer.
“Time is on our side,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said. Speaking as chairman of the summit, he promised to try to find common ground on key issues on Friday and Saturday. “The global network expects us to be ambitious and ambitious. “
The biggest fight is what the 10-year-old activist alluded to. Nations are divided on some competing characteristics when it comes to casualties and damage. Pakistan’s climate minister, Sherry Rehman, told fellow negotiators that two of the proposed features that do not offer a fund without delay are “not sustainable” for the 77 poorest countries and China.
A new draft canopy resolution from the Egyptian presidency was released Friday morning, part of Thursday’s 20-page document that has been criticized for being confusing and inflated. with features yet to be decided. And it does not include some of the maximum proposals discussed, from the European Union, Barbados and India, reflecting the priorities of the Egyptian presidency.
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