DUBAI – Center Jap heads of state delivered a speech at COP28 on Friday to attain their environmental targets, highlighting the area’s vulnerability to local weather change and warfare. Greater than 160 world leaders are anticipated to attend the UN local weather talks in Expo Metropolis this week.
On Friday, a delegation of high-level political leaders delivered brief speeches earlier than the summit, which attracted greater than 80,000 guests, making it the most important COP ever.
Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid identified in his speech that Iraq is a low emitter of greenhouse gases, however one of many nations most susceptible to local weather change, particularly on the subject of agriculture and water.
“Iraq’s excessive climate circumstances, together with file temperatures and low precipitation, have led to elevated droughts, desertification, land degradation and sandstorms,” he mentioned, additional explaining that these points “have created financial challenges which have resulted in elevated poverty ranges , inner displacement and exterior migration.”
