The agreement aims to increase energy security, roll out clean technology applications, and aid in climate change efforts.
The partnership was signed by Sultan bin Ahmed Al -Jaber, Minister of Industry and Technology, the Special Envoy for Climate Change of the UAE, and the hoplockestin, the American Presidential Coordinator, on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference “ADIPEC 2022”.
According to a statement from the official news agency, this relationship symbolises the UAE’s and the US’s shared resolve to accelerate climate work efforts and raise the bar for ambition in this area through coordinated efforts, in line with their targets to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.
The statement continued, “The UAE and the United States of America continue their efforts to coordinate with the approaching twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” COP27 “hosted by Egypt and in the context of the UAE’s readiness to host the twenty-eighth session of the conference” COP28 “in 2023.
The two sides realise that the success of climate work is fundamentally dependent on enhancing global energy security, facilitating the benefit of its services, and providing them at competitive prices. Working together within a common vision confirms that the quickest and most reliable path to achieve climate neutrality requires accelerating investment in clean energy technologies and resources.
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