On Friday, December 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Dubai for the COP 28 conference. Later on Thursday night, he will depart for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The yearly climate summit will end on December 12, 2023, having started on November 30. Nonetheless, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra stated in a briefing on Thursday that the prime minister will return to India later on Friday night.
How can we anticipate PM Modi’s visit to Dubai?
- According to Kwatra, PM Modi will speak during the World Climate Action Summit’s opening ceremony.
- In addition to giving a speech at the COP28, the prime minister will take part in three high-profile side events, two of which India is co-hosting. The in DubaI is the first high-level event that India and the UAE are co-hosting. The Ministry of Environment announced the Green Credit program in October of this year, and it is the foundation of this project.
- The introduction of LeadIT 2.0 is the second side event that Sweden and India are co-hosting. According to Kwatra, it is “essentially a leadership group for energy transition”. “In 2019 during the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, India and Sweden jointly launched this program. With the aim of expediting the industry’s transition to net zero emissions, this effort promotes collaboration among decision-makers by bringing together the public and commercial sectors, according to India’s foreign secretary.
- The prime minister is scheduled to take part in an additional high-level gathering called “Transforming Climate Finance”. The UAE, as the COP28 presidency, will host this.
- On the fringes of the COP28 World Climate Action Summit in the UAE, the prime minister is also expected to attend a series of bilateral meetings with his colleagues, according to Kwatra.
- Countries were urged to phase out fossil fuels and reduce emissions that warm the world more quickly at the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit, which got underway in Dubai on Thursday. Sameh Shoukry, the president of Egypt at COP27, opened the meeting by transferring the presidency to the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.
