2023-11-30T07:49:18+00:00
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/ The Regional Director of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed Al-Mandhari, revealed the nature of the organization’s participation in the (COP28) conference, which will be held in Expo City Dubai from November 30 to next December 12.
Al-Mandhari said in statements reported by Sky News Arabia, “The world is waiting for COP28 to be held. To discuss many important issues related to climate change, especially after the huge losses the world witnessed as a result of natural disasters that occurred this year, such as floods, torrents, and hurricanes.
This year’s summit is distinguished by the decision of the COP28 administration to devote an entire day of the conference to caring for climate change and health issues, according to the Regional Director of Global Health.
This edition of the United Nations Climate Conference represents a turning point in the history of confronting climate change, after the Paris Agreement “COP21” held in France in 2015, which is the first global agreement legally binding to work to limit the phenomenon of global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius and to continue efforts. To limit the temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to the level before the industrial revolution.
A humanitarian character for the Loss and Damage Fund
Al-Mandhari specified the goals that the World Health Organization hopes to approve during COP28 by saying, “We expect to discuss the details of the Loss and Damage Fund, especially health losses resulting from climate change, which constitute an impetus for discussions towards approving the fund.”
He added that the World Health Organization pays special attention to humanizing the Loss and Damage Fund, by calculating losses resulting from loss of life, injuries, the cost of treatment, and absence from work, as well as economic losses resulting from the destruction of health care institutions or their disruption of providing health services, in addition to Indirect health damage, such as food shortages and pollution of drinking water and air.
He stated that with the growing fears of the occurrence of new global pandemics that climate change may cause their occurrence or help in their spread, we at the World Health Organization express our concern, as global and regional climate change models indicate an increasing chance of floods occurring, an increase in severe heat waves, and a worsening Water scarcity, drought, and rising sea levels in the coastal cities of the region, and all of these changes may lead to disasters for human health and the environment.