NEW DELHI, Thirteenth October, 2023 (WAM) — Saqr Ghobash, Speaker of the Federal Nationwide Council (FNC), mentioned that the UAE has all the time pursued a stability between improvement and environmental safety.
Underneath the steerage of its management, led by President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE is taking part in an lively function in supporting the worldwide efforts to cut back the results of local weather change on the regional and worldwide ranges, he added.
He made these statements whereas taking part within the Ninth G20 Parliamentary Audio system’ Summit P20), hosted and organised by the Indian parliament, in cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), on Thirteenth-14th October 2023.
The occasion was attended by Om Birla, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, and a number of other officers and parliamentary audio system.
Ghobash identified that the UAE will host COP28, which is able to happen at Expo Metropolis Dubai in late November 2023 and can assessment the worldwide efforts and actions to achieve net-zero emissions and restrict the worldwide temperature rise to 1.5C.
The UAE will make COP28 a turning level for international local weather motion, in step with the imaginative and prescient of the nation’s management, and plans to hurry up the transition to a good and clear power sector, facilitating the financing of local weather motion, enhancing folks’s well-being, and interesting everybody within the course of, he added. ” These objectives are in step with the general worldwide efforts to attain sustainable improvement,” he added.
World peace and safety, in addition to social, financial, and political stability, depend upon two key elements, that are tackling local weather points and investing in clear and renewable power sources by a good and accountable power transition, and utilising superior applied sciences to cope with the results of local weather change, Ghobash additional mentioned.
The transition to renewable power sources requires all parliaments and regulatory our bodies to work diligently with their nationwide govt establishments to formulate and undertake long-term nationwide resolutions based mostly on sound and clear legislative frameworks to manage the nationwide method to all issues associated to financing and investing within the renewable and clear power sector, together with regulating all related inputs, equivalent to electrical energy, transportation, gas markets, and others, he added.
They need to additionally assessment current insurance policies and procedures associated to attaining sustainable improvement, most notably addressing the measures taken by numerous nations to answer pure disasters attributable to local weather change, in addition to cooperate with regional and worldwide parliamentary establishments to agree on renewable power objectives, technique of financing, and methods of attaining worldwide fairness in sustainable improvement, together with forging agreements to supply monetary and technical help to essentially the most susceptible and impoverished nations, he additional added.
Because the UAE prepares to host COP28, the FNC will work with the IPU to carry a parliamentary assembly, which is able to goal to coordinate legislative actions that may assist guarantee a safe and sustainable future for all folks with out exception.
