The president has also been invited to an event organized by the US and Norway on the decarbonization of maritime transport
MADRID, 6 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The launch of the International Alliance for Resilience against Drought will be the main milestone on the agenda of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, at the COP27 that starts this Monday in Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt), during which he will also make some announcements and will make clear Spain’s unequivocal commitment to the climate emergency.
The initiative, promoted by Sánchez together with the president of Senegal, Macky Sall, will officially see the light of day this Monday after the president announced it during his speech at the UN General Assembly in September and will also be launched in close collaboration with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Moncloa sources have specified.
The objective, they explained, is to establish a political platform that brings together the initiatives that exist at the international, regional, national and local levels in the matter with a view to generating resilience mechanisms that allow countries and their populations to be better prepared for drought phenomena. extreme as those currently experienced in some parts of the planet.
In the Government they congratulate themselves on the good reception that the initiative has had and assure that many countries, including the United States but also many other Europeans, Africans or Asians, have announced that they will join it. Representatives of some of them will be at the event organized on the margins of the COP27 this Monday afternoon, which will serve as a debut.
Before that, the President of the Government will have the opportunity to attend the official opening of COP27, the fourth event of this type that he has attended since taking office, and participate in one of the round tables organized for the leaders present, in his case under the title “Just Transition”.
At the end of the afternoon, he will also intervene before the plenary of the same. It will be at this time when Sánchez will announce new commitments in relation to the main topics to be debated in this edition -adaptation, costs and damages and financing-, the sources have specified, who did not want to go into details.
For the president, they point out from Moncloa, this is an extremely important event due to the international context in which it takes place and due to its multilateral nature. In addition, they recall that the climate emergency is a cross-cutting priority of the Government and emphasize that Sánchez considers it key not to lose sight of this issue.
In this sense, the message that Spain wants to get across is that despite the circumstantial result of the consequences of the pandemic first and the war in Ukraine later, some countries have moved away from their climate goals, returning for example to the use of fossil fuels, the goals set regarding the reduction of emissions and the commitment to renewable energies should not be lost sight of.
On the other hand, the Chief Executive has also been invited to participate in an event organized by Joe Biden’s personal envoy for climate change, John Kerry, and the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Store, on a joint initiative of the two countries to promote decarbonisation in maritime transport. In Moncloa they see in the invitation to Sánchez a recognition of the initiatives that the Government is carrying out in this matter.
