Rishi Sunak was given a private welcome by his Swedish counterpart immediately as he made his worldwide debut as Prime Minister.
Ulf Kristersson went old fashioned and wrote down his contact particulars for Mr Sunak as they met on the Cop27 environmental convention in Egypt.
In a clumsy picture from Sharm El Sheikh the Scandinavian chief bent down in entrance of Mr Sunak to scribble on a chunk of paper.
The PM is attending the gathering of world leaders by the Pink Sea after reversing a choice to remain away to give attention to home financial issues.
However in addition to conferences with Mr Kristersson and EU Fee president Ursula von der Leyen he additionally took half on a maybe extra controversial bilaterial assembly.
He held a face-to-face dialogue with Italy’s new far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The pair chatted about home constructing and planning whereas journalists have been within the room initially of the bilateral assembly.
The Prime Minister and Ms Meloni, Italy’s first girl premier, took workplace inside days of one another final month.
Ms Meloni’s Brothers of Italy occasion leads the nation’s first far-right-led authorities for the reason that Second World Battle.
He faces additional powerful conferences immediately, together with with Emmanuel Macron.
The Prime Minister and French President are because of meet this afternoon on the Cop-27 local weather summit in Egypt after the PM vowed to ‘get a grip’ on the Channel migrant disaster.
Ulf Kristersson went old fashioned and wrote down his contact particulars for Mr Sunak as they met on the Cop27 environmental convention in Egypt.
He held a face-to-face dialogue with Italy’s new far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The Prime Minister and Ms Meloni, Italy’s first girl premier, took workplace inside days of one another final month.
The PM is attending the gathering of world leaders by the Pink Sea after reversing a choice to remain away to give attention to home financial issues. he additionally met Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates (above)
He additionally met EU Fee president Ursula von der Leyen amid ongoing issues with the Brexit deal masking Northern Eire
The PM met von der Leyen amid ongoing tensions with the bloc over the implementation of the Northern Eire Protocol.
In addition to tackling local weather change, the Ukraine warfare and power disaster are additionally prone to characteristic within the two leaders’ talks.
The pair smiled and thanked the media initially of the assembly.
The Cop27 convention takes place towards a backdrop of more and more devastating excessive climate world wide, in addition to an power and cost-of-living disaster pushed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Because the assembly kicked off in Sharm El-Sheikh there was yet one more warning from UN consultants that efforts to restrict temperature rises to 1.5C and keep away from probably the most harmful impacts of local weather change was ‘barely inside attain’.
The previous eight years are on observe to be the most popular on file, with sea stage rise accelerating, the melting of Europe’s Alpine glaciers shattering information, and devastating floods, drought and heatwaves hitting in 2022.
After wrangling between delegations, the problem of funding for loss and harm from local weather change, similar to destruction of crops, buildings and infrastructure in poorer international locations, is now an merchandise on the official agenda for the talks.
Mr Sunak, attending Cop27 after what opponents known as a ‘screeching U-turn’ having deliberate to remain residence to work on home monetary points, will use his speech to the convention to name for a ‘international mission for clear progress’.
Sir Keir Starmer has hit out at Rishi Sunak over his preliminary resolution to not attend Cop27 in Egypt, promising {that a} Labour prime minister would work to ‘pull leaders collectively’ on local weather change.
Chatting with reporters throughout a go to to Imperial School London, the Labour chief mentioned: ‘The primary distinction a Labour authorities would make is that you’d have a major minister who wished to go to Cop as a result of we realise simply how essential it’s, as a result of we realise that’s not nearly local weather, additionally it is about the price of residing, it’s about power, it’s in regards to the subsequent technology of jobs.
‘You’d have a major minister, a Labour prime minister, on the world stage, pulling leaders collectively. I feel Rishi Sunak made a giant mistake in saying initially he would not go, as a result of it seemed that the UK not needs to be main on the worldwide stage.
‘I feel that may be a mistake for our nation, it’s a mistake globally and I feel it’s a mistake for the local weather disaster, which we now have received to deal with.’
The PM met von der Leyen amid ongoing tensions with the bloc over the implementation of the Northern Eire Protocol.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak additionally met with President William Ruto of Kenya at Cop27 this morning
The PM determined to attend the occasion after Boris Johnson introduced he could be going on the invitation of the Egyptian Authorities
Sir Keir Starmer has hit out at Rishi Sunak over his preliminary resolution to not attend Cop27 in Egypt, promising {that a} Labour prime minister would work to ‘pull leaders collectively’ on local weather change.
Rishi Sunak joined the COP27 summit immediately urging a ‘international mission for clear progress’ – however is dealing with a rising row about ‘reparations’ to states hit by local weather change.
The PM is in Egypt for the gathering – his first check on the international stage since coming into No10 – having U-turned on his unique resolution to not attend.
However the occasion is promising to be tough as creating international locations demand payouts for excessive climate occasions brought on by local weather change – similtaneously the UK imposes swingeing austerity and tax rises at residence.
Nicola Sturgeon – who has additionally jetted in for the summit – upped the stress this morning, saying there may be an ‘obligation’ on international locations that industrialised first to assist ‘take care of the impacts’.
Enterprise Secretary Grant Shapps pointedly refused to rule out the concept, saying the UK is ‘supportive of discussions’ happening at Sharm El-Sheikh.
Nevertheless, former PM Boris Johnson instructed a fringe occasion that Britain ‘merely would not have the monetary assets’ to pay reparations and ‘no nation does’.
Whereas admitting that the UK had contributed huge carbon emissions, he argued that the main focus must be on discovering non-public funding and technological options. ‘Let’s look to the longer term,’ he added.
Mr Sunak might have a clumsy encounter together with his predecessor later, though the premier insisted there may be ‘no hatchet to be buried’.