New mangrove centre to be built in the UAE

New mangrove centre to be built in the UAE

Dubai: The Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC), spearheaded by the UAE, will build a new mangrove centre as part of its global mission to restore and protect 15 million hectares of mangroves by 2030.

Mariam Almheiri, UAE’s Minister of Climate Change and Environment, said at a ministerial press conference during COP28 that the centre will help advance research and innovation and foster knowledge exchange within the global scientific communities on mangroves.

She said UAE’s personal mission to plant 100 million mangrove trees by 2030 is well on track and the country has successfully planted 45 million mangroves so far.

The minister said MAC, led by the UAE in partnership with Indonesia, has signed 39 countries so far which is a huge achievement.

She said the member countries and 50 non-state actors who met at COP28 affirmed their support for Mangrove Breakthrough - a collaborative effort between the Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA) and the UN Climate Change High-level Champions that goes with the same global mission to restore and protect 15 million hectares of mangroves globally by 2030.

All this came in the backdrop of a massive funding announcement by Razan Al Mubarak, UN Climate Change High-Level Climate Champions for COP28,