COP28 President-Designate calls for climate action plan that puts world on right track to achieve Paris Agreement’s goals

COP28 President-Designate calls for climate action plan that puts world on right track to achieve Paris Agreement’s goals

BERLIN, 2nd May, 2023 (WAM) -- Today in a speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President-Designate, presented his broad ambitions for COP28, which covered a call for transformative action and strong outcomes across the mitigation work programme, the global goal on adaptation and doubling adaptation finance, the just transition work programme, the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance, and the operationalisation of the loss and damage fund and funding arrangements.

“We want COP28 UAE to be remembered for uniting everyone in action”, Dr. Al Jaber said, underlining his commitment to and the importance of bringing everyone to the table, particularly youth, women, Indigenous peoples, NGOs, and the Global South.

The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is an annual meeting, hosted by the German Government with the objective of strengthening trust both in multilateral negotiations and between states. It provides a platform between COP27 and COP28 for parties and constituencies to share views on priorities for the next United Nations Climate Conference or Conference of the Parties, more commonly referred to as COP.

Dr. Al Jaber remarked that while “what happens inside the negotiations process is critically important, we