With 1.5°C as North Star, UAE charts passage plan for COP28
United Arab Emirates, host of this year’s UN climate talks, unveiled on Thursday the much-awaited plans and priorities for COP28, to be held in November in Dubai. The plan could lead to a global agreement to double energy efficiency, triple renewable energy capacity to 11,000 GW, and double hydrogen production to 180 million tonnes a year by 2030. “This plan is guided by a single north star.
And that is keeping 1.5 within reach,” said COP28 president designate Sultan Al Jaber, unveiling his plan at the informal meeting in Brussels, chaired by the European Union, China and Canada and attended by ministers and officials from more than 40 countries. To make this possible, Al Jaber stressed that it is necessary to “match the highest ambition for the negotiated outcomes with an equally strong and robust action agenda that can implement those outcomes in the real world” and “make climate and economic progress at the same time, not one or the other”. That, he said, will require “disrupt business as usual, unite around decisive action and achieve game-changing results”.
In an iteration of a call for all hands on deck, Al Jaber said, “We need to challenge old models that were built for the last century. We need to break down silos that are slowing progress. And we need to bridge divides that are blocking critical breakthroughs.
We need to include everyone committed to solving the problem, because everyone is affected by the problem. “We must apply a far- reaching, forward-looking, action-oriented and comprehensive response to address these gaps,” said Al Jaber. This response, devised by the UAE COP28 presidency, rests on four pillars: fast-tracking the transition, fixing climate finance, focusing on people, lives and livelihoods,
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