The lecture focused on 6 axes, most notably the role of advanced technology in risk management
Mohammed bin Zayed Council: UAE has launched exceptional global initiatives to build a better future for humanity
Saif bin Zayed attended a lecture on "Technology to Face the Challenges of Climate Change". WAM
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The Majlis of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, organized yesterday a lecture entitled "Advanced Technology to Face the Challenges of Climate Change", which was attended by Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and a number of ministers, senior officials and members of bodies concerned with sustainability and climate change.
The lecture, delivered by the founder of Green Jobs Machine, Dr. Sharon McPherson, focused on six main themes: climate resilience, the role of advanced technology in risk management, the importance of climate resilience indicators and data-driven metrics in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the role of governments in harnessing advanced technology to build a more sustainable future, the challenges of investing in areas at risk of climate change, and the role of industry in enhancing climate resilience.
McPherson began the lecture, which was held at the Mohammed bin Zayed Majlis at Al Bateen Palace in Abu Dhabi, by stressing that every day the world is witnessing the emergence of new evidence of the obstacles facing humanity in solving issues related to addressing sustainability and climate challenges, while also witnessing technological developments that can provide many solutions that could make an important difference in human lives.
McPherson said that the UAE has launched an integrated package of qualitative and exceptional initiatives to enhance the world's efforts in addressing climate challenges by finding and creating sustainable initiatives to build a better future for all humanity, especially as it has many key components of exceptional leadership keen to communicate with humanity, which made it able to lead the world, in addition to spending billions to support all those in need around the world.
She added: "During the Covid-19 crisis, the UAE has provided a distinguished global model in the field of work at all levels and levels, through which it has succeeded in strengthening mechanisms and procedures to ensure the safety of its citizens and residents, and since my arrival in the UAE, I began to communicate with young men and women of the UAE, and ask them: What do you love most about being an Emirati? They replied that the leadership of the UAE represents a source of pride and pride in being Emiratis, indicating that their leaders are always keen to listen to them, and touch their needs continuously, stressing that due to its accumulated experience, no country in the world has found its youth have such a feeling and love towards their leaders as the Emiratis do.
McPherson pointed out that the UAE's invitation to more than 197 countries to attend and participate in the activities and work of the 28th Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP1), which the UAE will host at the end of this year, is of great importance for several reasons, the first of which is that the conference scheduled for November will witness the first global assessment of the level of collective progress made by countries on the goal of the Paris Agreement, which is to limit temperature increases above 5.2050 degrees Celsius by <>, compared to BThe average temperatures in the pre-industrial era.
She said: "The conference also represents an opportunity to evaluate the UAE's approach to addressing climate change, which is practical and comprehensive and aims not to leave any party behind, which it is working on by proposing effective methods and mechanisms that countries can adopt in order to invest in the so-called climate resilience, an investment that requires a comprehensive understanding of the systems and our methods of investment and management," expressing her hope that this conference will be used to convince people to adopt resilience as a basic concept in Building and sustaining infrastructure, power generation and food farming, which is a necessity and strategies to achieve prosperity in the coming years.
UAE Sustainability
The lecture "Advanced Technology to Face the Challenges of Climate Change" began with the screening of a documentary film that reviewed the UAE's efforts in the fields of sustainability, the use of modern technologies and artificial intelligence, and the most important initiatives and projects it approved to reduce carbon dioxide levels, including the project to plant 100 million mangroves by 2030, which will have an important role in absorbing up to four times more carbon compared to the Amazon forest.
Sharon McPherson:
"Every day, the world is witnessing the emergence of new evidence of the obstacles facing humanity in solving files to address sustainability challenges."