New Delhi: India and UAE called upon the world to recognized the “urgent need” to address the challenges of climate change through global collective action.
In a joint statement Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, committed to enhance cooperation on climate ambition, decarbonization, and clean energy, and work together to have tangible and meaningful outcomes from the 28th Session of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties COP28.
The UAE will host COP-28 later this year, and Modi extended his support for the country’s incoming presidency. During his visit, Modi also met COP-28 president-designate Dr Sultan Al Jaber.
Prime Minister Modi also congratulated the UAE as the selected host country of COP28 in 2023 and extends his full support to the UAE’s COP28.
Both the country also called upon developed nations to fulfil the USD100bn delivery plan, so that the goal can be met in 2023 to support “affordability of finance” to the developing countries in response to the ongoing impacts of climate.
They also recalled the obligations under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement and called upon the nations to take action for doubling the climate finance for adaptation to developing countries from the 2019 level by 2025.
“Both leaders urgently call upon the international community to expedite efforts in order to preserve the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement through the fulfilment of nationally determined contributions and the display of solidarity and support” said the statement.
They underscore the imperative of achieving ambitious, balanced, and implementation-oriented outcomes at COP28 across all the important pillars of global climate action; namely the mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage and means of implementation including climate finance.
In this context, both leaders highlighted the importance of the global stocktake (GST) and its successful conclusion at COP28, an ambitious exercise designed to take stock of global collective action to achieve the objectives of the Conventions and the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Both leaders stress on the imperative of fortifying the adaptation capacities of developing countries in the face of climate impacts. public health.
They noted that investments in renewable energy, green hydrogen, utilization and storage technologies, energy efficiency, and other low-carbon solutions will have the potential to accelerate sustainable economic growth and also foster job creation.
The leaders emphasize on the necessity of supporting and deploying all technologies to effectively address and reduce emissions, while ensuring a just transition that enables comprehensive sustainable development.
Both leaders acknowledged that sustainable and environment-friendly behaviours of individuals, when counted on a mass scale, can be a significant contributor to global climate action.
Both leaders affirm the importance and significance of India’s G20 presidency and affirm the G20’s role for fostering and accelerating cooperation in combating climate change, with emphasis on finance and technology as critical enablers, as well as on just, inclusive and sustainable energy transitions.
The Joint Statement noted that the UAE and India are united in their determination to ensure the successful outcome at COP28 as an inclusive and action-oriented conference that creates a new momentum for effective climate action and international cooperation to advance the goals of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement.
