Congo facilitated a conversation about loss and damage that would inform the negotiation agenda in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The DRC coordinated with other African oil and gas producers prior to COP27 as well. In September 2022, members of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group met in Senegal to plan for the UN climate conference. The DRC’s coordination initiatives on loss and damage ahead of the UN climate conference and its successful stewardship of REDD+ issues in Egypt set out a pathway for developing countries to gain leverage internationally by working multilaterally. On climate change policy, developing countries must work to develop binding climate change agendas in multilateral institutions including the African Union, the LDC Group, ASEAN, the G20, and the UN Security Council and others.