On Friday and Saturday, heads of state and government will present their national statements as part of what organizers are calling the World Climate Action Summit.
These are two days for world leaders to implement key climate-related decisions and transform them into concrete actions and credible plans based on the COP27 agreements and upholding their commitment and responsibility towards the environment.
To this end, the agenda includes issues of climate change, its confrontation and the urgency of promoting coordinated action, to which the President of COP28, Sultan Al Jaber, called for overcoming differences and acting together to find viable solutions to the current climate crisis to find. and thus offer future generations a better world.
With the high-level segment, COP28 will begin its work in earnest with a climate summit that will be attended by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and world leaders present in Dubai, who will present what their governments are doing to address the current climate crisis.
The event got off to a good start this Thursday by completing the launch of a fund intended to compensate vulnerable countries for the damage caused by global warming. This step should be used by all governments and delegates to achieve further results in Dubai. .
Such a fund is a long-standing demand of developing countries that are on the front lines of the impacts of climate change and are facing the costs of the devastation caused by increasingly frequent extreme weather events.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the implementation of compensation for losses and damages, which he saw as an essential tool for achieving climate justice.
The COP also marks the culmination of the Global Inventory, an assessment of progress to date in implementing the provisions of the Paris Agreement: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to the process of global warming and mobilizing financial support for vulnerable countries.
Therefore, the conference is being developed with a variety of topics on the climate agenda and is looking for decisions that will move its 198 members (countries, sovereign entities and regional organizations) towards a climate future within the limits compatible with life.
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