COP27 + climate is back in the foreign press this morning: Reuters says that tensions are rising ahead of the summit, as developing countries increase their demands for wealthy nations to compensate them for losses and damage they endured due climate change. Meanwhile, ESG finance site Capital Monitor talks to the sustainability chiefs at four of Egypt’s biggest banks about sustainable finance in Egypt and COP27.
Human rights is getting attention in the gray lady: Political prisoners in Egypt share stories of the conditions through which they lived in the nation;s prisons in this feature piece by the New York Times.