This year's COP27 climate summit in Egypt will bring together tens of thousands of participants and more than 100 heads of state to discuss efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and ways to cope with a changing climate.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a "climate solidarity pact" between rich and poor nations to limit the severity of global warming in a COP27 speech.
Why it matters: Guterres places a high priority on tackling climate change, and the proposal emphasizes the rapidly closing window to limit the extent of warming.
Rights groups have raised concerns about the potential surveillance of COP27 delegates, the arrest of protesters and imprisonment of political prisoners in Egypt ahead of the climate summit starting in Sharm el-Sheikh Monday.
The big picture: As U.K. officials pledged to raise at COP27 the imprisonment of a British-Egyptian writer, Human Rights Watch noted in a report Sunday Egypt's authorities had "arrested dozens of people" over anti-government protests planned to coincide with the summit and that restrictions were placed on demonstrations.
