Environmental news: UAE seeks to provide promising solutions for climate crises
Under the banner of One World, and highlighting the relationship between humanity, nature, technology and innovation, the UAE is preparing to hold the COP28 Summit in Expo, Dubai, from November 30 to December 12, 2023, amidst UAE’s emphasis on the need for innovation in all sectors to achieve a qualitative leap in comprehensive sustainable development.
The UAE’s Global Conference addresses climate action and the relationship between humans, renewable energy technology and elements of wildlife and nature. Together, these elements reflect the wealth of natural resources and human technology.
UAE vision on climate action
International reports monitor the importance of the UAE’s vision to climate action and to mitigate climate change and its impact on the whole world, as the UAE’s vision for climate action includes an opportunity for sustained economic and social growth.
Paris Agreement Goals
According to international reports, the need for climate finance has become more essential and is the basis for the success of the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the creation of successful solutions to provide climate finance, in addition to increasing the volume of investments for poor, developing and most needy countries.
It also stressed the need to be able to adapt to climate change and promote sustainable development in a concrete manner based on financial reforms that contribute to more affordable soft loans and mobilizing the private sector to finance emerging and developing economies.
Global demand for unclean energy
Dr. Iyad Abdel Mohsen, an environmental expert, said that the global trend is towards a large global demand for unclean energy, which is the problems of the earth. He added that global warming is a problem that affects all countries of the world, including poor and low-income countries. For this reason, many countries believe that the world must move quickly to address the effects and disasters resulting from global warming, the use of non-renewable energy, and deforestation, especially in the Amazon region of South America, which is considered the first lung of the earth.
Abdel Mohsen added that the UAE is seeking to have a major role and a forward location in the Middle East and the world, in order to attract companies and experts in the field of renewable energy to control and develop solutions to the problems of global warming and the ensuing disasters, noting that “many countries of the world are suffering from drought, high temperatures, and the emergence of new diseases in new locations, which are the events and melting of ice in the two poles, and the UAE is expected to be as proactive as Egypt in holding the Sharm El-Sheikh conference.”
Middle East hardest hit by climate crisis
He stressed that in order to face the reality, it is necessary to put the problem of global warming on the top of the list, because the countries that are primarily affected are the countries of the Middle East, especially because of the environmental reality existing from a water crisis, and therefore we must put quick solutions to the level of individuals and countries, and the behavior of individuals and homes in the water economy, lighting, the use of energy saving, as well as the saving and not wasting of natural gas, and Iraq wastes 60% of its natural gas.
The use of renewable energy must be accompanied by the rehabilitation of open areas, just as China is farming, so water needs are less for sand control, there must be regional cooperation and studies on environmental reality, and we must have cadres to manage non-desertification, he said.
“Global warming is affecting food security and rising temperatures are affecting drought and reducing natural vegetation, so there is no growth and it is affecting the emergence of diseases in global warming areas,” he said.
