UAE participation at Climate Summit a recognition of country’s strong climate leadership: Sultan Al Jaber

Abu Dhabi: Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Business and Superior Know-how and UAE Particular Envoy for Local weather Change, has mentioned that the UAE's participation in US President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Local weather, is a recognition of the nation’s robust local weather management and progressive method to tackling local weather change.

In a press release issued following the announcement of the participation of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai on the summit, which begins on April twenty second, Al Jaber additional expressed his nation's keenness to supply a sensible, constructive voice on the local weather agenda, and to work with the US and world companions to make this important 12 months a transparent success for local weather motion.

This is the assertion in full: "The United Arab Emirates is honoured to take part within the Leaders’ Summit on Local weather. The Summit is a key milestone within the worldwide local weather area and strengthens momentum towards the United Nations Local weather Change Convention (COP26) this November in Glasgow.

The UAE has a longstanding monitor file in proactively adopting and selling clear power and carbon mitigation applied sciences as a key pillar of our financial diversification technique. We've at all times considered progressive local weather motion as a possibility for financial development. We all know there's a robust enterprise case for funding in local weather mitigation and adaptation applied sciences, and that our investments will ship jobs and financial development alongside carbon financial savings.

Resulting from early funding and coverage selections, the UAE now enjoys the lowest-cost solar energy on the planet, enabling additional competitiveness in our industries and providers. We're additionally one of many first international locations within the area to implement commercially viable carbon seize and storage at scale, offering an necessary proof level for historically difficult emission sectors. We're additionally investing in new zero-carbon fuels, together with hydrogen that exhibits promise as an power supply of the longer term. Moreover, we're sharply growing our funding in innovation and R&D for agriculture and meals programs, to each adapt to local weather change and cut back emissions – which would be the focus of a serious new world partnership to be introduced shortly.

The UAE has and can proceed to display constructive management in local weather motion. Earlier this month, we hosted US Particular Presidential Envoy for Local weather John Kerry and COP26 President Alok Sharma in Abu Dhabi, together with excessive degree representatives from 10 MENA economies for the UAE Local weather Dialogue. The dialogue concluded in a landmark joint assertion from the area, in addition to a bilateral assertion between the UAE and the US committing to speed up local weather motion.

The UAE has at all times sought to supply a sensible, constructive voice on the local weather agenda, and we stand able to work with the US and our world companions to make this important 12 months a transparent success for local weather motion."

President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Local weather is a vital second on the trail to the pivotal UN Local weather Change Convention (COP26) this November in Glasgow. The Summit is designed to maximise the percentages for world local weather motion at COP26. The themes of the Summit embody discovering methods for lowering emissions; the way to jumpstart non-public and public sector finance to drive the net-zero transition, and the way to floor new and transformational applied sciences to cut back emissions.

President Biden invited 40 world leaders to affix him on the Summit, which begins April twenty second. These invited have been chosen for being key voices within the local weather battle, together with the heads of governments which might be demonstrating robust local weather management and are charting notably progressive pathways to a net-zero financial system.