Climate action efforts in UAE and Egypt show ‘bold leadership’

The U.S. presidential climate envoy John Kerry on Wednesday called the work the UAE and Egypt are doing to accelerate the energy transition as “bold leadership.”

“They are deeply involved at the forefront of trying to help accelerate the transformation,” Kerry said in the briefing.

” besides UAE has been at the forefront A whole bunch of tech investments. For a gas and oil producer, I think that’s special. “

“I think it’s bold leadership.”

Just weeks before the UN climate summit in the Egyptian coastal town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Mr. Kerry laid out Washington’s top priorities for Cop27.

He said the Biden administration’s aim at the climate summit was to ensure that the promises made in Glasgow “are actually being delivered at the speed they need to be”.

Mr Kerry spoke about the devastating impact of climate change on Africa, home to 17 of the world’s 20 most climate-vulnerable countries.

Developed countries, which account for 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, should lead the way in helping developing countries adapt to the effects of climate change and lead the way in a new energy future, he said.

Mr Kerry said climate catastrophe should be an impetus for urgent action and everything to be done to stop global temperatures rising above 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

“If we don’t, we’ll do more damage to ourselves, [making] The planet is even more desolate and even uninhabitable. “

Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday, he said Washington is willing to seek a middle ground in the growing demand for wealthy climate violators to compensate poorer countries for damage to the planet’s climate.

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, developing countries were committed to providing $100 billion a year in funding to help them deal with the effects of global warming.

This goal has not yet been achieved.

“We believe we have to come forward and we have a responsibility. We accept that,” Mr Kerry said.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said this month that financial commitments to developing countries must be met.

“We need to see evidence of how they will double adaptation funding to at least $40 billion by 2025, as agreed at Cop26 in Glasgow,” Mr Guterres said.

More than 35,000 people are expected to attend Cop27, which will be held in Egypt from November 6 to 18.

This will be the fifth time the event has been held in Africa.

The region’s government hopes it will draw attention to the severe impact of climate change on the continent.

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Currently, an estimated 17 million people in East Africa face food insecurity due to drought, the United Nations said.

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Updated: 10/26/2022 8:42pm