Before COP28, a tripartite declaration calls out on the climate “emergency”

Only three weeks left and the 28th ^United  Nations Climate Conference of the Parties (COP28) opens. From November 30 to December 2, 2023, leading stakeholders including governments, civil society organizations (CSOs) and even businesses who are constantly being singled out for industrial pollution will gather in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. (WATER). Objective, to evaluate progress in mitigation, adaptation and climate resilience on the five continents.

But before the high mass, three emblematic figures of the ecological transition send a message to the planet to meet the challenge of the climate emergency. These are Sameh Shoukry, president of COP 27 and current Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alain Donwahi, president of COP15 on desertification and former Ivorian Minister of Water and Forests, as well as Huang Runqiu, president of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) and Chinese Minister of Ecology and Environment.

In their joint declaration, they first recognize the lack of capital which has significantly slowed down the implementation of the 17 goals (SDGs) in developing countries before noting that the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Climate Fund Global Environment (GEF) which have just replenished their resources for the second and eighth time respectively “are able to increasingly meet the financing needs of multi-sectoral projects and programs”.

A call for stronger cooperation

In the following lines, Sameh Shoukry, Alain Donwahi and Huang Runqiu Huang Runqiu suggest strengthening cooperation on a global scale in order to better prevent or mitigate land degradation, loss of biodiversity and climate change, the consequences of which ( food insecurity, floods and droughts) are no longer in doubt these days.