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Landmark UAE Consensus becomes defining framework for all countries to keep 1.5°C within reach and ensure global implementation

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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It gives clear direction to all countries on how to keep 1.5°C within reach, transforms agreements into tangible outcomes, and ensures global implementation by delivering a set of world firsts.

Key Points: 
  • It gives clear direction to all countries on how to keep 1.5°C within reach, transforms agreements into tangible outcomes, and ensures global implementation by delivering a set of world firsts.
  • The UAE Consensus reaffirms the UAE's position as a global leader in multilateral climate and development settings.
  • The UAE Consensus also proved that multilateralism can still work, even at a time of high geopolitical tension.
  • "If this agreement is to get traction, we need serious action," Dr. Al Jaber said, "Now the hard work begins."

Landmark UAE Consensus becomes defining framework for all countries to keep 1.5°C within reach and ensure global implementation

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Monday, February 12, 2024
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The UAE Consensus also successfully operationalized and began financing a fund to address Loss and Damage for the first time.

Key Points: 
  • The UAE Consensus also successfully operationalized and began financing a fund to address Loss and Damage for the first time.
  • The UAE Consensus reaffirms the UAE's position as a global leader in multilateral climate and development settings.
  • The UAE Consensus also proved that multilateralism can still work, even at a time of high geopolitical tension.
  • An important opportunity lies in working multilaterally on commitments to deliver high-ambition decisions at COP28, including through the UAE Consensus.

COP28 Director General meets with Fiji's Prime Minister, underscores Presidency's commitment to Pacific Island nations' climate priorities and needs

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Monday, August 21, 2023
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SUVA, Fiji, Aug. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- COP28 Director-General and Special Representative Majid Al Suwaidi visited Fiji to meet with Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and distinguished leaders of Pacific Island nations.

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  • The Director-General recognized the existential threat climate change poses to Pacific islands and reiterated the COP28 Presidency's commitment to support the most vulnerable.
  • - Al Suwaidi also called for Pacific nations to use their moral leadership to help shape the global response to the Global Stocktake at COP28.
  • In his remarks at the Pacific SIDS High-Level Dialogue on Climate Change in Fiji, Al Suwaidi underscored the COP28 Presidency's commitment to delivering for vulnerable countries at the upcoming climate summit.
  • The COP28 Director-General stressed that Pacific Island communities on the frontlines of climate change must be at the forefront of the climate decision-making process.

UK's response to climate-related disasters examined

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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
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International Development Committee takes evidence from climate change stakeholders

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  • In the third oral evidence session of the IDCs inquiry into UK aid for combating climate change, the Committee will first explore the issue of loss and damage asking what stance the UK should take in helping to reconcile the different perspectives of developed, and developing, countries over the basis for allocating funds in response to climate-related disasters and slow-onset damage.
  • The Committee will then examine the UKs role in protecting the worlds tropical forests and will explore what part this plays in the UKs wider efforts to combat climate change.