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SYND holds Pre-COP28 summit in Accra

The Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND) has organized its Pre-COP28 National Youth Summit on the theme “Youth taking lead on climate Action at COP28 and beyond.”

The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference will convene from November 30 to December 12, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The head of climate change and policy program, SYND, Ms. Patience Agyekum speaking at the event said  SYND focuses on giving young people the opportunity to also share widely, their knowledge on climate change.

“The SYND has provided a guide for the youth on how to collaborate with their local assemblies to also contribute to the COP discussion” she said.

She encourage the youth to get themselves equipped with information on climate change and the outcomes of COP meetings and also contribute their knowledge to the menace.

“The upcoming climate conference will be a memorable event. The UAE is committed to contributing to every activity geared towards fighting the climate change menace,”must be a different type of that gathering”, the Charge d’Affaires of the United Arab Emirates Embassy in Ghana, Mr. Amer Alawi said In a speech read on his behalf.

The positions and policies that governments put in place including the government of Ghana, and the government of UAE over the next seven years, he said would have a profound impact on the world’s ability to affect the West climate impacts.

He stated that the UAE was accurately aware of its responsibility to bring diverse communities together to achieve a safer climate world for all.

“The world is still a long way from its net zero goals and the urgency to act is growing by the day. There is an opportunity therefore to reduce the growing trend of climate induced weather shocks and the instability that follows, increasing climate finance to countries particularly in the global south to protect some of the world’s most vulnerable populations including Ghana , and spread the benefits that would result from global energy transitions” he stressed.

Mr Alawi said the UAE had already invested 50 billion dollars in renewable energy in over 70 countries and has also pledged to invest another 50 billion dollars to clean energy projects.

BY RAISSA SAMBOU & NII AYITEY BROWN

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