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Ugandan youth activist Nyombi Morris arrived in Egypt for the UN's COP27 climate summit with high hopes of being part of the campaign for environmental justice. But he says security measures have shattered his plans to join in with the talks.

He fears the accreditation process is risky given there's been "dozens" of arrests of climate activists.

Nyombi had hoped to petition for compensation for his community who were displaced when devastating flash floods hit Uganda's eastern Butaleja district in 2008. "We have a lot of climate victims in Uganda... we have more than six climate refugee camps," he says. "I wanted to demand that leaders approve loss and damage funds."

(Photo: Nyombi Morris, who founded the Earth Volunteers youth organisation, stands next to a COP27 sign outside the UN climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Credit: Nyombi Morris)