COP28 chief urges nations to ‘scale up available zero-carbon energy sources’

COP28 chief urges nations to ‘scale up available zero-carbon energy sources’

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Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President-Designate, arrived in Denmark on Monday to co-chair the two-day Copenhagen Climate Ministerial alongside Sameh Shoukry, COP27 President and Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Dan Jørgensen, Denmark’s Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy.

This convening, attended by more than 40 government ministers, is the first climate ministerial meeting leading up to COP28.

In opening remarks at the climate ministerial, Dr Al Jaber said, “We need to build on the foundation achieved at COP27 and move from goals to getting it done. We are way off track when it comes to the critical goal of keeping 1.5 alive. Incremental steps will simply not cut it, we need transformational progress in the next 7 years across mitigation, adaptation, climate finance and loss and damage.”

Throughout the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial, Dr Al Jaber held a series of bilateral meetings with climate leaders and government ministers from around the world, including Simon Stiell, UNFCCC Executive Secretary; Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Commission; Zhao Yingmin, China’s Vice Minister of Ecology