United Arab Emirates (UAE) climate ambassador and designated president of the COP28 conference stated that UAE will investigate all partnership prospects with India to support the south Asian nation's growth and low carbon aspirations.
At the International Sustainable Development Conference in New Delhi, Sultan al-Jaber said, "India's objective of adding 500 gigawatts of clean energy over the next seven years is a tremendous statement of will. The UAE, one of the biggest investors in renewable energy, would look into all possible joint venture prospects with India.
The COP28 climate meeting, which will take place in Dubai between November 30 and December 12, is being hosted this year by the UAE, a significant OPEC oil exporter. After Egypt in 2022, it will be the second Arab country to do so. The summit will be the first international evaluation of progress made since the historic Paris Accord to reduce global warming in 2015. Jaber reaffirmed that he would keep the summit's top priority being the restriction of global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The objective of preserving 1.5 is indisputable, he declared.
The Paris Agreement pledges nations to keep the increase in the average global temperature well below 2 degrees Celsius and to strive for 1.5 degrees Celsius, which, according to scientists, might trigger much more catastrophic climate change effects.
Jaber will influence the conference's agenda and international negotiations in his capacity as COP28 president. He also serves as the head of ADNOC, the state-owned oil company of the United Arab Emirates. His appointment has increased activist worries that big business is sabotaging efforts to combat global warming. In the run-up to COP28, Jaber promised to keep talking and listening to everyone, including the commercial sector and civil society. Let's keep in mind that cooperation, not polarisation, is how the world advances, he remarked.
