Watch: 100,000 Chinese individuals attend ‘BiWalk’ to support COP28 Dubai conference

Watch: 100,000 Chinese individuals attend ‘BiWalk’ to support COP28 Dubai conference

Dubai: It was 11 am, June 10, 2023, hundreds of Chinese expatriates in the UAE ran at a special indoor event in Dubai, to support to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will take place at Expo City Dubai from November 30 to December 12, 2023. This was the first step of a six-month ‘Green BiWalk’ initiative, which aims to promote low-carbon awareness, encourage active individual responses to climate change, and support the COP28 conference in Dubai to achieve carbon neutrality. Around 100,000 people in the UAE and China are expected to walk a total mileage of more than one million kilometers. Activities will be held simultaneously in Dubai, Beijing, Ordos, and other places in China over the course of the next six months. Chinese Consul General Li Xuhang announced the launch of the initiative at the event. He said, “China will support the UAE in hosting the global event.... The ‘Green BiWalk to Dubai’ activity launched today is our support. We organised the activity around ‘Green’, a hue popular among people both in China and the UAE due to its meaning of life and hope. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”