UAE-US envoy meets UN envoy at COP28

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UAE-US envoy meets UN envoy at COP28

It was critical to acknowledge that the fossil era is ending on Sunday, the United Arab Emirates' foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who chaired preparations for COP 28, met with the US special presidential envoy for climate change, John Kerry, in a meeting attended by al-Jaber.

The three reviewed the UAE-US initiatives, including The UAE-US Partnership for Accelerating Clean Energy PACE, which will catalyse US $100 billion in financing, the company said in a statement.

Last year, the UN Climate summit in Egypt reached a significant deal to help vulnerable nations cope with climate-enhanced disasters, but failed to uphold stricter commitments to tackle emissions, despite support from more than 80 nations.

The Bonn meeting will aim to close the gap on a previous promise of $100 billion per year to help poorer countries make their economies greener and prepare for future climate shocks.

In September, Observers will also look for signs of how nearly 200 nations represented will respond to the first ever Global Stocktake, of progress made in reducing carbon emissions.

The assessment will echo a UN report warning that the world may cross the 1.5 C warming limit within a decade. The report also predicted that current fossil fuel infrastructure could tip global temperatures over the edge if its carbon pollution is allowed to escape into the atmosphere.

emissions - that must drop nearly 50 percent by 2030 to keep Paris' climate treaty objectives within reach - continue to rise.

The Paris Agreement 2015 calls for nations to limit global warming below two degrees Celsius, or 1.5 C, a safe limit that would still have severe implications for millions.

It does not say how the world will meet that challenge.

Small island nations that could be wiped off the map by rising sea levels within decades are among the most vocal supporters of reducing fossil fuel use.

Fossil fuels are certainly the main culprit in this climate change fight, said Samuelu Laloniu, the special envoy of the government of Tuvalu.

The whole country of Tuvalu is at risk.