A top UAE official said the global stocktake to take place at Cop28 should be seen as a “moment of hope”. “The global stocktake has to have that moment of hope,” said Mr Al Suwaidi, who was the UAE's lead negotiator at Paris in 2015. “I think that makes it really powerful because since Paris we haven’t had a moment like that where we address all the issues simultaneously in one negotiation and I think that gives us a really, really powerful moment," he said. John Dennehy / The NationalHis comments came during a high-level panel discussion at Mena Climate Week dedicated to the global stocktake. Message must be strong“The global stocktake needs to send a very strong message as a global community that we are not on track.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 09, 2023 10:27 UTC