Egypt, which is hosting UN climate talks next month, has warned the participating nations not to use global tensions and economic gloom as a pretext for potential backsliding on climate pledges. “There has been apprehension [about] the current status that countries might backtrack,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said. “Backtracking because of the political adversarial postures that exist … because of the pressures of the general global economic circumstances, and thereby utilize what would be extenuating circumstances to justify their backtracking … This would be, I think, a very…