Climate dominated the conversation on talk shows yesterday: The nation’s talking heads went all out on their coverage of the first day of the Egypt-International Cooperation Forum (Egypt-ICF), which is bringing together global policymakers, ministers, development partners and other participants ahead of COP27 to discuss climate action, the green transition, food security, and finance.

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s speech unsurprisingly got plenty of attention on the airwaves: Masaa DMC and Al Hayah Al Youm broadcast segments of El Sisi’s statement, which he used to call on developed countries to step up their funding for poorer nations. Heavily-hit nations require USD 800 bn every year until 2050 to meet the challenges posed by climate change, he said. (watch, runtime: 5:36). Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa covered the meeting between El Sisi and EBRD chief Odile Renaud-Basso (watch, runtime: 3:31), while Al Hayah Al Youm featured clips of the speech made by US climate envoy John Kerry (watch, runtime: 2:18). We have the full rundown of the first day of the forum in this morning’s news well, above.

Monkeypox has landed: Egypt’s first detected monkeypox case got the talking heads talking, with coverage from Masa’a DMC (watch, runtime: 2:04) and Ala Mas’ouleety (watch, runtime: 3:07), which featured an interview with Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar on the virus’s modes of transmission and its minimal outbreak in the MENA region.

The Chamber of Tourism Establishments and Restaurants wants the government to reconsider introducing winter closing hours to attract tourists and bolster revenues. (Salet El Tahrir | watch, runtime: 3:20)

Foreign Ministry explains Egypt’s Arab League walkout: Egypt withdrew from a session chaired by the foreign minister of the Tripoli-based government in Libya because it doesn’t consider the government legitimate, FM spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said. (Ala Mas’ouleety | watch, runtime: 13:17)

The Egyptian media regulator’s demands to Netflix and other streaming platforms to adhere to “social values” got a thumbs up from some of the talking heads, who accused the West of attempting to export homosexuality to the region. (Masa’a DMC | watch, runtime: 9:10)