Fruitful visit… The President of the UAE and his French counterpart sign projects to combat climate change
The United Arab Emirates and France signed a series of major agreements aimed at strengthening the fight against climate change, strengthening partnerships in space exploration and defense, and enhancing cooperation in higher education. Ten agreements were also signed yesterday, Monday, to strengthen bilateral relations within the framework of the state visit of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, the President of the United Arab Emirates to France, as well as the exchange and transfer of Emirati expertise in the field of clean environment and renewable energy to France.
Joint agreement
The National magazine said that the UAE and French ministers have drawn up plans to work together in a number of areas, including a letter of intent on granting permission to family members of diplomatic missions’ employees and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to do business, a joint declaration on cooperation between the UAE and France in the field of higher education, in addition to an agreement between the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology and the Afnor Group for cooperation in the field of metrology, an agreement between the Office of the UAE Special Envoy for Climate Change and the French government in the field of climate action, a roadmap for cooperation between the UAE Economic Balance Council and the General Armaments Directorate of the French Ministry of Defense, as well as an agreement between the Mohamed Center for Space Center and the French National Center for Space Studies, focusing on Satellite Satellite Observation Activities An agreement was also signed to establish cooperation between the Pasteur Institute and the Abu Dhabi Center for Public Health. Matar Saeed Al-Nuaimi, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Center for Public Health, and Professor Stuart Cole, President of the Institute, in addition to a contract for the establishment of NT Energies between Technip and the National Petroleum Construction Company.
Climate change
The United Arab Emirates has the sixth largest crude oil reserves in the world and is committed to enabling global energy security. Through a balanced and practical approach to energy transformation, the United Arab Emirates is working to expand its crude oil production capacity to five million barrels per day, while increasing its global renewable energy capacity from 23 gigawatts to more than 100 gigawatts by 2030.
The magazine continued: The United Arab Emirates invests more than $50 billion in clean energy projects on six continents, including in 27 climate-vulnerable island countries, through Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company and other UAE platforms. The United Arab Emirates is adopting a low-carbon path to a high-growth destination and aims to accelerate progress on this journey as host to COP28. It is also the first country in the region to sign and ratify the Paris Convention, commit to reducing emissions, and the first to announce the Zero Net Strategy Initiative by 2050, which it benefits as a catalyst through low-carbon growth, new technologies, new industries, new skills and new jobs.
