UK supports UAE, looks forward for strong participation and engagement at COP28: Envoy

Edward Hobart, ambassador of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland to the UAE, affirmed his country's support for the UAE hosting of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) and UK's active participation and engagement in the UN climate conference...

"In COP28, we think that the UAE is a great country to be hosting it, understands energy, has a long history in energy, and has a long history in renewable and clean energy including nuclear..

We have to reduce emissions, and just like the UAE has just published its own commitment to net zero, its refined commitment, we need countries around the world, the big emitters to put out what are called 'NDCs', (Nationally Determined Contributions) to reduce those emissions."..

On UAE-UK energy cooperation, the UK Ambassador said, "The UAE has been investing for over a decade in the UK in renewable energy and they are investors in major wind farms, offshore wind farms, the London Array, wind farms in Scotland, and floating high wind farms off the coast of Scotland..

So, Octopus Energy from the UK and Taqa from the UAE invested in Morocco in a British company called Xlinks with the ambition to bring solar and wind energy from Morocco to the UK - three and a half thousand kilometres of cable to do that..

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