At the conclusion of the Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change in Copenhagen

Sultan Al Jaber: In line with the directives of the UAE leadership, we are working to support the progress of global climate action

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Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and President-designate of COP28, stressed that the directives of the leadership in the UAE focus on supporting global climate action to achieve radical progress, a qualitative shift that contributes to ensuring that the conference comes out with practical results that include everyone, and called on ministers and officials concerned with the climate file from around the world to join hands and unite efforts to achieve the desired results.

This came in his remarks at the Ministerial Conference on Climate Change, which he co-chaired with Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian Foreign Minister and Chairman of COP27.

The Copenhagen meeting is the first official policy meeting of climate ministers and officials from around the world since COP27.

During the two-day conference, hosted by the Danish government, Al Jaber held a series of bilateral meetings in an effort to rally support for the conference's agenda aimed at focusing on practical results and inclusion of all, and called on senior officials to achieve radical progress and a qualitative shift in climate action to maintain the goal of avoiding the rise in global temperature exceeding the level of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The conference brought together climate ministers and senior government representatives from developed and developing countries, including France, Japan, Maldives, Samoa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and many others, along with Simon Steele, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Selwin Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action.

During the conference, Al Jaber, along with Sameh Shoukry and Dan Jørgensen, Dan Jørgensen, Dan Jørgensen, focused on following up on the outcomes of COP27 and paving the way for the success of COP28 hosted by the UAE later this year.

Al Jaber noted that the global outcome to assess progress in implementing the goals of the Paris Agreement is approaching within COP28, and called on ministers and climate leaders to take action across a range of key areas so that the goal of avoiding global warming exceeding 1.5°C can be achieved.

"The synthesis report of the sixth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released yesterday, highlighted the significant challenges facing us, and the need to correct course in order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, and identified many opportunities and solutions available to reduce emissions and enhance climate resilience," Al Jaber said.

Al Jaber stressed the need to accelerate climate neutrality pathways, and outlined the UAE's approach to achieving this crucial goal, saying: "In line with the directives of the UAE leadership, we are working to accelerate climate neutrality paths by relying on renewable and emission-free energy sources, while reducing the emissions of the current energy system, and investing in new mitigation technologies that have proven effective."

"The world has limited opportunity to radically transform the entire climate action ecosystem, and if we make smart investments, we will be able to build a path for sustainable economic and social growth that protects the climate while supporting economic progress," he added.

"We need to double the financing of 'adaptation' by 2025, and achieve an effective outcome on loss and damage this year through clear recommendations from the Transitional Committee on the Loss and Damage Fund and financing arrangements," he said, stressing the need to communicate with all climate action platforms to ensure that the Fund is fully operational by COP28.

He stressed the need for the financing allocated to address loss and damage to be reliable and focus on the needs of countries most exposed to the repercussions of climate change, pointing out that there are many opinions listened to by His Excellency that see the need to develop the performance of international financial institutions to provide more financing at low cost and concessional terms, stressing the need for continuous support from everyone to achieve and activate this necessary development.

At the end of the conference, Al-Jaber addressed the attendees, calling for the transition from setting goals to implementing them, and said: "We have identified many gaps and challenges, and discussed how to turn them into solutions and opportunities, and we must also intensify work to transform ambition into reality and move from the stage of discussing solutions to implementing them."

Al Jaber participated in the dialogue and several plenary sessions and high-level discussions during the Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change in Copenhagen, and also met with a group of ministers and climate action leaders and climate stakeholders, including Zhao Longmin, Vice Minister of Environment of China, Collins Nzovo, Minister of Green Economy and Environment of Zambia, Grace Fu, Minister of Sustainability and Environment of Singapore, and Jennifer Morgan, Undersecretary of the German Foreign Office, and stressed in all discussions the need to promote effective and tangible climate action, and raise the ceiling of ambition at the Parties COP28.

At the end of the visit, Al Jaber thanked the ministers and climate action leaders, and welcomed their support for a realistic, logical, smart and just transition in the energy sector, based on an approach to inclusion and empowerment of private sector partners.

Al Jaber was accompanied by Majid Al Suwaidi, Director General of COP28, who led a roundtable with heads and executives of the Danish industrial sector in the fields of renewable energy, heavy industry, transportation, water systems and energy innovations.

During the meeting, he linked the COP28 agenda to the real economy, and discussed the key components of the COP<> strategy, especially the global outcome of assessing progress in implementing the goals of the Paris Agreement, the energy transition, strengthening private sector supervision and monitoring its efforts in climate action.

The visit to Copenhagen is the latest in the COP28 Global Listening Tour, which aims to meet and hear the views of and interact with a range of partners across governments, civil society, youth, the private sector, representatives of international organizations and NGOs, and so far Al Jaber and members of the COP28 Presidency team have visited India, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the United States, and the Group is scheduled to hold additional meetings in more developed and developing countries.


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