2023-07-02 11:53:35
Sunday, July 2, 2023 – 3:52 PM
Geneva, July 2, WAM/ Muhammad Al-Hammadi, Head of the “Jusoor International Center for Media and Development,” stressed the need to achieve “climate justice” in the world in light of the negative changes related to climate change affecting human life, basic rights, and the process of implementing the United Nations plan for achieving development. He expressed his confidence that the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28), which the UAE will host at Expo Dubai, during the month of November, will be a pioneering platform for promoting climate justice around the world.
This came within the framework of the center’s participation in the work of the fifty-third session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which will be held during the months of June and July 2023 through the interactive dialogue held during its sessions, which is devoted to discussing the most prominent issues related to human rights in the world, which included focusing on many issues and topics concerned. The work of the Council and its international mechanisms, particularly issues related to climate change and the achievement of climate justice.
Al-Hammadi pointed out in his intervention to the importance of the great efforts made by the Human Rights Council in order to achieve climate justice and protect the climate, stressing the importance of working to enable people to enjoy their basic rights, which have been greatly affected by the negative effects of climate change and policies and practices harmful to climate protection. .
The Head of Jusoor International Center praised the efforts of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, and his keenness to achieve climate justice, especially for the groups most affected by climate change, in light of the practices the world is facing that in turn affect the climate and the environment at the global level.
Al-Hammadi stressed the importance of taking advantage of the favorable opportunity for the UAE to organize the “COP 28” to come up with decisive decisions that contribute to promoting climate justice in the world and work to ensure the protection and promotion of the rights of all people in a fair and equal manner, and in a way that confirms the commitment of all countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. climate and fulfill its international commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement.
Asim Al-Khouli
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