The Saudi Arabian government is set to host a week-long climate event in the capital Riyadh starting Sunday in partnership with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The event, which will bring together policymakers, private sector businesses, youth activists and other key stakeholders in the field of climate change and sustainability, will be held at Riyadh City Boulevard. The “MENA Climate Week” is taking place ahead of the UN COP28 climate conference in Dubai from late November. The event in Saudi Arabia comes at a crucial time, with most countries having identified rising temperatures as a problem and having since pledged to take action to limit the effects of global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius between 2030 and 2050. “The aim of this week is to address the complexities, challenges and opportunities of climate change and collectively offer insights that will ultimately be considered as part of the climate inventory at COP28 in November,” the Saudi Ministry of Energy said in a statement. The review quantifies global progress made against the 2015 Paris Agreement on keeping global warming temperatures under control. The event in Riyadh, which runs until Thursday, was divided into four areas of action to combat climate change: energy systems and industry; cities, urban and rural settlements, infrastructure and transport; land, ocean, food and water; and societies, health, livelihoods and economies. It is part of a series of regional climate weeks held annually in Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia-Pacific; and the Middle East and North Africa. The event will kick off with keynote speeches from Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, COP28 President-designate Sultan al-Jaber, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiello. Saudi Arabia, a leading oil producer and exporter, is among those countries that have committed to a net-zero target by 2060, with a goal of generating 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. The kingdom is expected to announce projects and memoranda of understanding at the Climate Week meeting that formalize parts of its national climate change plan. In 2021, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the launch of the Saudi Green Initiative, which would focus on reducing emissions, planting 10 billion trees in the coming decades, and protecting land and the sea. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the wider Middle East and North Africa region are threatened by rising sea levels, droughts, and warmer weather. In addition to the environmental impacts, it can also affect quality of life by directly contributing to a higher cost of living, as Al Arabiya English reported in September.

Ministers from around the world are attending a high-level event co-hosted by Spain and the IEA to strengthen ambition and implementation ahead of COP28 in Dubai. Ministers and senior officials from nearly 40 countries around the world joined leaders of international organizations and representatives of industry, civil society and youth organizations in Madrid on Monday for the International Climate and Energy Summit.  summit The summit, co-organised by the Spanish government, which currently holds the presidency of the European Union, and the International Energy Agency, sought to build a broad coalition behind efforts to keep the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C within reach. The summit, co-chaired by Spanish Prime Minister Teresa Ribera and IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, opened with statements from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and COP28 President-designate Sultan Al Jaber, and aimed to strengthen support for measures to increase clean energy and reduce demand for fossil fuels ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement. 

Adnan Amin, who is the director-general and number two official at the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai in late November and December, hopes for a "course correction". The top official at the upcoming international climate talks hopes to prove critics wrong and surprise them with a "course correction" to an ever-warming world. But don't expect such a big turnaround. Adnan Amin, who is the director-general and number two official at the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai in late November and December, said he also knows what activists, critics and the head of the United Nations really want - a phase-out of fossil fuels that cause climate change. He said it looked unlikely. (Euronews with AP)

This one the long-awaited technical report from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) assesses progress since the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, following a two-year evaluation of thousands of contributions from experts and leaders. The review is designed to prompt action, explained Vox, and he is forthright in his assessment that more is needed "on all fronts" as well as in his recommendations for steps such as "phasing out all non-reducing fossil fuels" and "radical decarbonisation" of the economy. At the COP28 conference in December this year, the document will shape discussions at the conference and potentially help clarify how much countries need to do to actually act. (Kate Whiting)

(Reuters) - Nearly 200 countries meeting at this year's COP28 U.N. climate change summit will assess how far they are from meeting pledges to halt global warming in a process called the "global stocktaking." A global review of what countries have done so far to prevent more catastrophic climate change is due to be published on Friday. It is expected to be politically divisive and could set the stage for the next few years of global action to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly 200 countries agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels under the 2015 Paris Agreement, with a goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius, which scientists say would prevent the most serious and irreversible impacts climate change. Each country is responsible for setting its own national goals and policies to contribute to the overall goals of the Paris Agreement.

There are just three days until the United Nations publishes its first-ever global balance sheet, assessing how nations are doing in the fight against climate change. The world is losing the race to meet its climate change goals, the president of the upcoming COP28 climate summit said on Tuesday (September 5th). He was speaking as African presidents gathered in Kenya to discuss how to finance the continent's environmental agenda. The gloomy assessment by Sultan Al Jaber, who will chair a summit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the end of November, came three days before the United Nations publishes its first "global balance sheet".  This assessment of how nations are doing in the fight against climate change will tell the world what efforts need to be stepped up to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.  "The world is losing the race to meet the Paris Agreement targets and the world is struggling to keep 1.5 (°C) within reach," he said Jaber, who is also the head of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company , a delegate at the inaugural Africa Climate event. Summit in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi. (Euronews Green with Reuters)

With 100 days to go before COP28, which will take place in Dubai from November 30 to December 12, 2023, it calls on the international community to unite and take action. "At the end of July, I met in India with G20 ministers from developed and major developing countries "," he said. “These countries produce 85% of the world’s economic output and 80% of its CO2 emissions, placing them at the center of our collective response to climate change. Without the collective leadership of the G20, the world will remain hostage to climate inaction.” (currentvalues.com)

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The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday, July 31, that it would allow environmental activists "to gather peacefully"  on the UN climate conference (COP28)  in Dubai  later this year, despite a ban on unsanctioned protests in the Gulf state. Emirates, which will host COP28 from November 30 to December 12 in Dubai's CBD, requires official permission for protests but bans those it deems disruptive. At COP28 "There will be space available for climate activists to meet peacefully and express their views" ,” the UAE government said in a joint statement with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), carried by the country’s official WAM news agency.

The United Arab Emirates, which is hosting this year's UN climate summit COP28, has set out "insufficient" plans to address its own contribution to climate change, an independent research group said on Thursday. The United Arab Emirates strengthened its climate commitment to be more ambitious earlier this month, and its summit leadership urged other countries to do the same ahead of the November talks. But the country's new pledge will see CO2 emissions rise even further by 2030, running counter to the sharp declines needed to limit climate change, according to research consortium Climate Action Tracker. (Kate Abnett, Reuters)

Countries at this year's UN climate summit must confront how far they are behind on climate change goals and agree on a plan to get back on track, the incoming president of the United Arab Emirates said on Thursday. In his speech, which presented the country's plan for the COP28 summit, which will be held in Dubai in November, Sultan al-Jaber said the event should also deliver on international targets to triple renewable energy, double energy savings a hydrogen production by 2030. (Reuters, Joe Lo).

What do women have to do with climate change? Are they affected differently than men? Are there specific issues that affect women in relation to climate change? With COP28 in the United Arab Emirates just around the corner and many preparatory meetings and events taking place, the gender dimension is still largely under the radar, with national interests, development and financing dominating the discussions. But women could be the key to moving forward. (MAHA AKEEL).

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The Bonn conference, with delegates representing more than 100 parties to the Paris Agreement, brought together more than 4,800 participants from all corners of the world, almost double the number of participants who attended last year's conference. This included indigenous peoples, local communities, businesses, cities and civil society, including youth and children. Those gathered for their first full in-person meeting since COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh addressed climate change and highlighted the challenges that need to be overcome to achieve emissions reduction targets. (Melisa Cavcic)

Delegates representing more than 100 parties to the Paris Agreement met in Bonn, Germany, and set the stage for some key decisions for the UN climate conference (COP 28) in Dubai and for the coming years. Over the past two weeks, representatives of countries from around the world have converged on the former West German capital for their first full face-to-face meeting since COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh. Despite considerable frustration in Bonn over the parties' failure to agree on an agenda for the two-week meeting, significant progress was made.

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The ocean contains 60 times more carbon than the atmosphere and absorbs nearly 30 % of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from human activity. This means that the ocean is key to understanding the global carbon cycle and thus our future climate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) uses Earth System Models to project climate change. These projections inform critical political, social and technological decisions. However, if we cannot accurately model the marine carbon cycle, then we cannot truly understand how Earth's climate will respond to different emission scenarios. ( Tyler Rohr, University of Tasmania, Anthony Richardson, The University of Queensland, Elizabeth Shadwick, CSIRO)

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Talks on setting ambitious targets for the world's bid to adapt to the effects of climate change were saved for the last minute at the Bonn climate talks, after sharp divisions between developing and developed countries. The tough negotiations in Germany centered on the framework for the Global Adaptation Goal, an initiative aimed at increasing the resilience of nations to extreme weather events, floods, droughts and sea-level rise. (Matteo Civillini)

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BERLIN, June 16 (Reuters) - Global climate negotiators had little concrete progress to report in talks aimed at preparing for this year's COP28 U.N. climate conference in Dubai, which is hoped to push governments to take more ambitious steps to curb of global warming to 1.5. degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). (Riham Alkousa).

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With the COP28 UN climate summit approaching, the debate about what we need to do and what we are willing to do is intensifying. Meanwhile, our planet continues to warm. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlights the urgency of the climate crisis and the need for real solutions. However, in a world marked by geopolitical and economic differences, this task becomes even more daunting. One of the main challenges facing COP28 is bridging the implementation gap between agreed agreements and actual action. Previous conferences have set ambitious goals, but the translation of these goals into concrete policies and measures in practice has been insufficient. COP28 must support mechanisms that ensure effective implementation of commitments. In addition, countries, especially those in the Global South, should be provided with adequate financial and technical support to enable them to effectively implement their climate plans. (NIKOLAJ E. MLADENOV)

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Inevitable tension surrounds this year's November climate talks under the auspices of the United Nations: They will be held in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, and the most important role in the negotiations will be played by the man who heads the nation's oil company. Chief Executive Sultan al-Jaber and other emirate officials have said they have a "game-changing" plan to combat climate change by welcoming oil and gas companies from around the world to participate more in talks. In other words, invite the producers of the fuels that cause most of the global warming to be key players in developing a plan to slow warming. (Max Bearak)

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