2023-11-29 12:32:53
Time.news – A summary of the fight against climate change almost 10 years after the Paris agreements. Cop28, The United Nations Climate Change Conference scheduled to take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from November 30 to December 12, officially opens tomorrow with the goal of taking stock on the state of the art in the fight against global warming: the Paris climate agreement established the commitment to verify the progress made on climate change (a process defined as “Global Stocktake” and the summit will serve to estimate the effects of the climate policies implemented by governments in recent years.
The leaders’ plenary session it will host the heads of state and government of around 150 countriesone of the most attended editions ever. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, He will arrive in Dubai on the afternoon of the 30th and will participate in the high-level session of the summit, scheduled for December 1st and 2nd. The Italian commitment, diplomatic sources have made known, will be to confirm its commitment to supporting Africa and the government’s intention to allocate a large part of its Climate Fund to the African continent will be reiterated.
Meloni will participate in the opening of the proceedings which will begin after the traditional family photo, and will speak in the session on food systems and the one on adaptation to climate change. On the evening of the 1st, Meloni and other leaders will attend an evening of opera music created by the Teatro alla Scala, during which Italian arias will be performed: the event is the result of a collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Eni.
US President Joe Biden will not attend the summit, and the Washington administration will be represented by climate envoy John Kerry. The crisis in the Middle East and the war in Gaza, although not officially on the agenda, will certainly be present in the talks between the leaders. According to what has been learned, Italian diplomacy is working to organize a series of bilateral meetings between Meloni and some of the heads of state and government present at the summit.
The Israeli president Isaac Herzog and his Palestinian counterpart Abu Mazen they will both speak at the summit. Both Herzog and Mahmud Abbas will give their speeches on Friday and it is likely that the Fatah leader will be physically present in the room during Herzog’s speech, although it will be very difficult for the two to meet face to face.
The themes at the center of the summit will be three: firstly the mitigation of climate change in which leaders will evaluate the efforts made so far to reduce CO2 emissions to reach the Paris objectives of limiting the growth of the global average temperature to a maximum of 2 degrees centigrade at the end of the century, compared to pre-industrial levels.
The second theme will concern adaptation to climate change, while the third question will concern the 100 billion euros per year in financing that the richest nations should allocate to developing countries to assist them in their path towards reducing climate change. emissions.
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