British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pulls out of COP27 climate summit - CNN

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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is nary longer expected to be the COP27 clime summit successful Egypt adjacent week owed to “other pressing commitments,” a Downing Street spokesperson said connected Thursday.

The UK volition inactive beryllium represented by different elder ministers, arsenic good arsenic by COP26 President Alok Sharma, astatine the clime acme successful Sharm El Sheikh, the connection said.

“The authorities is perfectly committed to supporting COP27 and starring planetary enactment to tackle clime alteration and support nature,” a Downing Street spokesperson said.

“The Prime Minister is not expected to be the acme successful Egypt owed to different pressing home commitments, including preparations for the autumn statement.”

Sharma and the elder ministers who are attending volition beryllium moving to guarantee countries proceed to marque advancement connected the commitments made astatine COP26 successful Glasgow, the connection continued.

The quality comes weeks aft British media reports astatine the opening of October said noted environmentalist King Charles III would miss COP27 aft then-Prime Minister Liz Truss advised him to driblet his plans to attend.

CNN understands that the King’s attendance astatine COP27 had not been confirmed and, pursuing consultations with the government, determination was a associated statement that this would not beryllium the close juncture for Charles’s archetypal overseas sojourn arsenic a sovereign.

King Charles attended the clime alteration league arsenic Prince of Wales successful 2021.