Fatma Al Ward Al Darmaki (Dubai)
Major General Staff Dr. Khaled Fouda, Governor of South Sinai, praised the UAE’s organization of the Conference of the Parties (COP28), stressing that this organization reflects the UAE’s giant leaps towards development and progress.
Fouda, who oversaw the organization of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai, said: “All evidence clearly proves that COP28 is a historic station for a promising start towards a secure climate future.”
He added: This is due to many reasons, the most important of which is that interest in this issue has become global than before at the level of public opinion, countries and institutions, as well as because extensive studies were conducted to monitor the obstacles that prevented the implementation of previous decisions in the past, and packages of policies and programs were developed to overcome them, including incentives and penalties.
He continued: «In addition to the heavy losses that the world has felt during the past decades as a result of neglecting environmental requirements and standards and their effects on the climate system».
He added that all the pledges and decisions taken in the early days of COP28 in Dubai embody a quantum leap in stimulating and promoting action towards a better climate future for our planet.
On the UAE’s role in climate and environmental issues globally, Major General Fouda said that the UAE is a pride not only for Arabs, but for all humanity, which qualifies it to play an important role towards the planet and its inhabitants, at all levels, especially in climate and environmental issues, pointing out that this role is strengthened by the UAE, as it is the most keen country on sustainable development by the nature of its people and its nature-loving leaders, preserving authenticity and heritage, which values the desert and the importance of its agriculture, sanctifies wildlife and marine life with all its components, and resists the causes of pollution. Which is in fact the core of the planet’s efficient climate entity that the world is now seeking.
Fouda explained that in light of the UAE’s latest technologies that support new and renewable energy and its applications in all fields, in accordance with the highest international standards, there is no doubt that the results of the World Climate Summit in Dubai will have important positive effects on the future of future generations.
According to Fouda, there is no doubt that young people are the group entrusted with shaping the future because of their capabilities, enthusiasm and ambition, as well as being the leaders of tomorrow, so their attendance at the previous summit in Sharm El-Sheikh was intense, and their participation had an effective impact on the preparation, organization and promotion of recommendations, supervision and control over their implementation, and in the same way, the current summit in Dubai is witnessing a large presence of young people, to complement their inevitable and sustainable role in improving global climatic conditions.
Fouda pointed out that it is imperative for Arab countries to work permanently to support the participation of young people and their involvement in working to improve the environment and climate system, by providing incentives to enhance their enthusiasm and give them opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation, exchanging experiences with their peers from around the world in international forums, activating cooperation between Arab countries and international institutions to push training programs in which the private and private sectors participate in support of the culture of volunteerism and make every effort to continue promoting and raising awareness in everything related to behaviors that promote improvement. The environment has positive effects on the recovery of the climate from the damage it has suffered over the past decades. He stated that on such days last year, Egypt succeeded in hosting the annual conference held within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), in the city of Sharm el-Sheikh in South Sinai Governorate.
He pointed out that he is attending the activities of the 28th edition of the climate conference held in Dubai, as part of handing over the launch badge to the new leadership of the conference in the UAE.