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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Under the theme 'Galvanising Action for a Sustainable Recovery,' Dubai

Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and the World Green Economy Organization

organised 7th World Green Economy Summit (WGES). It brought together prominent

speakers and officials and was centred around four themes: Youth; Innovation

and Smart Technologies; Green Economy and Policies; and Green Finance.

WGES concluded with HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai

Supreme Council of Energy, MD&CEO of DEWA, and Chairman of WGES, announcing

Dubai Declaration 2021.

Dubai Declaration

- We recognise that climate change is an urgent global threat with impacts that

reach beyond the environment agenda to include economic, social, and

environmental challenges.

- We acknowledge that sustainable and green recovery should steer our efforts

to rebuild the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to limit the

temperature increase to well below 2°C aiming for 1.5°C above pre-industrial

levels, in line with the Paris Agreement "COP21".

- We encourage inclusive partnerships in which governments, businesses and

civil society are part of collective action, for current and future generations.

- We encourage further support towards low carbon transition by developing a

strategy and a roadmap for green hydrogen in Dubai.

- The World Green Economy Organization (WGEO) will continue as the leading

platform and partnership enabler for international cooperation,

knowledge-sharing and technology transfer between developed and developing

countries, taking account of the special needs and circumstances of Least

Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States, aiming to promote

design and implementation of green economy policies at national, regional and

global levels.

- We look forward to the fulfillment of commitments to the goals of the Paris

Agreement, while rendering our full support for a successful UNFCCC COP26 to be

held in November 2021 in Scotland.

- We will coordinate and align the regional response to climate change for an

effective implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and

other national climate strategies and policies through UNFCCC WGEO Regional

Collaboration Centre in Dubai, during MENA Climate Week 2022. This will

coincide with the next World Green Economy Summit in Expo 2020 Dubai in March

2022.

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Source: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority