As government representatives begin to finalize the agenda for the COP27 climate change conference in Egypt next month, for pre-COP planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo capital, Kinshasa, Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists in New York that the work ahead is “as immense as the climate impacts we are seeing around the world”. COP27 is “the number one litmus test” of how seriously governments take the growing climate toll on the most vulnerable countries.
