COP28 climate conference from Sharm El Sheikh to Dubai
Climate ConferenceCOP28 From Sharm El Sheikh to Dubai
Last November 30, the COP28 activities began in the UAE, which discussedclimate changesand ways to confront them, with an interest in pushing countries to accelerate the pace of green transformation in all sectors.
After two weeks of discussions, the reactions were somewhat mixed. Despite this, a number of environmental specialists confirmed that COP28 is different in its approaches. Among them is the head of the Department of Environmental Biotechnology and a member of the Arab Union for Climate and Environment – Tahseen Shuala – who confirmed that the Dubai conference came in a different way in light of thegeopolitical circumstancesthat the whole world is going through.
Shaala continued, saying: “The financing file was the conference’s top priority,” then he pointed out how important climate conferences are, especially since the world faces very serious environmental challenges. Drawing attention to the fact that countries that are exposed to these challenges are in urgent need of restructuring and high costs.
In the same context, the European Union Climate Commissioner – Wopke Hoekstra – saw the activation of the “Loss Fund” as a decisive step in COP28, and pointed out that this noticeable movement in the Emirates only started from Egypt, where the previous edition of the conference –COP27– was held in the city of Sharm El-Sheikh last year. Egypt had a clear role in launching the Climate Loss and Damage Fund, something that the international community had waited for many years, especially developing countries that were more affected by climate change than others.
Also, Hoekstra praised the Climate Solutions Fund, which was launched by the UAE Presidency of the Twenty-Eighth Conference of the Parties (COP), with a value of $30 billion. It is the box that the Earth Guards magazine talked about ina previous article. The Climate Commissioner of theEuropean Union also mentioned the expected role of the UAE in the next seven years, as it targets about $130 billion in climate investments, in addition to the World Bank’s announcement of allocating 45% of its annual financing to climate change projects indeveloping countries.
On the other hand, the professor of environmental economics at Ain Shams University – Dr. Abdel Masih Semaan – praised the signing of 134 countries of the COP28 Declaration for Sustainable Agriculture, which garnered about 2.5 billion dollars; In order to supportsustainable and smart agriculture programs. Semaan stressed that COP28 sought to achieve what the world agreed upon in the Paris Agreement. That is, agreeing to implement carbon neutrality by 2050, by reducing emissions by 43% by 2030. So that the global temperature does not exceed 1.5 degrees.
The professor of environmental economics at Ain Shams University pointed out that the issue of strengtheningclimate financing had begun with Egyptian efforts in the city of Sharm El-Sheikh, and the UAE must make more efforts to benefit from the Egyptian momentum that occurred at COP27, and for countries to respond to the decisions of the Egyptian and UAE presidencies in these two editions of the conference. Global.
At the end of the article,Earth Guards stresses the necessity of a just and comprehensive transition in the field of clean energy, and for developed countries to take into account what the parties agreed upon in COP27, and what was stated in the draft decision of the UAE presidency inCOP28; So that we can all stand by the countries affected by climate change, so that we can achieve the goals ofSustainable Development.
