CNN: UAE to host UN Climate Change Conference in 2023 
Egypt and United Arab Emirates (UAE). The countries in 2022 and 2023 respectively will host the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27 and COP28), CNN writes with reference to the Dubai government.
“We will make every effort to make the conference a success. The UAE will fulfill its climate commitments to save the planet, ”Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said.
For the second time since the annual talks, the climate summit will be held in the Middle East – the first from countries in the region, it was hosted by Qatar in 2012. UAE Minister for Climate Change and Environment Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri said organizing the conference in the country would help engage young people in the fight against climate change. A government spokeswoman called young people the category of citizens behind the future of the planet.
The previous Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) was held from October 30 to November 13 in Glasgow, Scotland. As a result, diplomats from nearly 200 countries pledged to cut carbon emissions, ditch certain fossil fuels, and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change.