Dr Sultan Al Jaber, the UAE’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and CEO of ADNOC, has been named the President-Designate for the UN climate change conference COP28 to be held later this year in Dubai.
Al Jaber, who is also the UAE’s minister of industry and technology, will help develop the COP28 agenda and play a central role in intergovernmental negotiations to build consensus, his office said in a statement.
The UAE, a major OPEC oil exporter, will be the second Arab state to host the climate conference after Egypt hosted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) in 2022.
“The UAE is approaching COP28 with a strong sense of responsibility and the highest possible level of ambition,” Al Jaber was quoted as saying by the Emirates News Agency (WAM) on Thursday.
