UAE Climate Tech: COP28 President-Designate calls for decarbonisation of economies

UAE Climate Tech: COP28 President-Designate calls for decarbonisation of economies

Abu Dhabi: Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President-Designate, Dr Sultan Al Jaber today called for collective climate action from global leaders to transform, decarbonise and future-proof economies. He was speaking to over 1,500 global policy makers, innovators, and industrial leaders at the UAE Climate Tech conference in Abu Dhabi with a call to accelerate the development and deployment of technological solutions to decarbonise economies and reduce emissions by at least 43 per cent by 2030 in line with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. In his remarks, he stressed the urgent need for a responsible and pragmatic energy transition that is laser-focused on phasing out fossil fuel emissions while phasing up all viable zero carbon alternatives while ensuring that the Global South is not left behind. “The science is already telling us that we are way off track. The latest IPCC report has confirmed that the world must reduce emissions forty three percent by 2030, and that’s if we are serious about keeping the ambition of 1.5 alive. At the same time, we know that global energy demand will continue to increase because an additional half a billion people will join us on this planet