![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/mayor-to-travel-to-egypt-for-climate-conference/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AA13G9fQ.jpeg&description=Bristol's mayor will travel to Egypt for a climate conference where he will try to raise cash from investors. Marvin Rees said he would be representing cities all over the world to secure funds for climate projects while attending COP27. Mr Rees was criticised earlier this year for flying nine hours to attend a different climate conference in Canada.A spokesperson for the mayor said in order for Mr Rees to "make big deals...you need to be in the room". "Marvin Rees is proud to have secured an initial £424m from international investors for City Leap clean energy projects, creating 1,000 new jobs and cutting 140,000 tonnes of emissions over the next five years," he added."The fight against climate change will be won or lost in cities, so Bristol simply can't afford not to be at COP27 banging the drum for our city and our planet." Each year the United Nations hosts the global climate summit, called the Conference of Parties (COP), to get countries around the world to work together on tackling climate change. © Reuters Governments will come together in Sharm El Sheikh to discuss action on climate Last year, COP26 was held in Glasgow, and this year the summit will be in Sharm El Sheikh.Mr Rees said on Tuesday the conference was increasingly about finding investors to help pay for climate projects, like district heat networks or underground metro systems, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. "For the world's cities at the moment, particularly off the back of COP26, COP is the place where cities are going to connect with the finance they need to go on that journey of decarbonisation. "There is no decarbonisation without investment, in retrofitting homes, putting in new heat systems, putting in heat networks, investing in mass transit systems."It's not all in the public purse, it's in private finance as well." © Reuters The prime minister reversed an earlier decision not to go to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt and will now attend This year's COP27 begins o){kind=link}
Bristol’s mayor will travel to Egypt for a climate conference where he will try to raise cash from investors.
Marvin Rees said he would be representing cities all over the world to secure funds for climate projects while attending COP27.
Mr Rees was criticised earlier this year for flying nine hours to attend a different climate conference in Canada.
A spokesperson for the mayor said in order for Mr Rees to “make big deals…you need to be in the room”.
“Marvin Rees is proud to have secured an initial £424m from international investors for City Leap clean energy projects, creating 1,000 new jobs and cutting 140,000 tonnes of emissions over the next five years,” he added.