UAE: Companies encouraged to join fight against climate change as country gears up for COP28

UAE: Companies encouraged to join fight against climate change as country gears up for COP28

With just six months and one day to go for COP28, private companies and organisations were encouraged to join the race against climate change at an event held in Dubai on Monday. The ‘Road to COP28’ event gave companies the options of several local and global campaigns they could join, to contribute towards UAE’s Net Zero by 2050 initiative.

For UN Climate Change High-Level Champion Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, at the top of her list of priorities is to get more companies to join the global Race to Zero and the Race to Resilience campaigns. The largest and most credible global alliance of non-state actors currently has over 11,000 members.

“I want to bring the race closer to the region,” she said at a media roundtable. “If you look at it now, there [is] not enough representation or participation from the region. I want to find why aren’t they engaging and why aren’t they participating.”

It was in January this year that Razan was elected as the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion. A position which originated with the Paris Agreement and has become a hallmark of each COP meeting, the champion must engage with non-state actors to help achieve the goals of the