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  1. “In conclusion, I would like to reaffirm the commitment of the United Arab Emirates here in the Security Council, as the incoming President of COP 28 and in all forums to listening to affected communities and responding with ambition and urgency and with action that leaves no country and no community behind. Preventing and addressing insecurity are one of the most important investments that we, as the international community, can make.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  2. “We also underscore the urgent need for an annual investment plan, increased data collection and integration with anticipatory action systems. Fourthly, we must acknowledge and address the unprecedented legal and policy challenges posed by sea level rise. That includes ensuring that the multilateral system offers adequate solutions. In that regard, the United Arab Emirates encourages the International Law Commission’s continued work on sea level rise, especially its implications for the law of the sea, sovereignty and statehood. Similarly, we also recognize the important efforts by Pacific small island developing States to advance the normative legal debate on sea level rise.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  3. “The loss and damage facility agreed at the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change must also be operationalized. This is the year to politically recognize the financing gap regarding fragility and to close it. The peace dividends of such actions will be immediate and enduring. Thirdly, early-action work by humanitarian actors gives us a range of proven tools to reduce the security impacts of sea level rise. It also provides an opportunity to understand the implications for the most vulnerable, such as women and children, and to ensure an inclusive response from the start. Accordingly, the United Arab Emirates is fully supportive of the Secretary- General’s Early Warnings for All initiative.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  4. “Regular reporting by the Secretary-General on the basis of scientific data on, and an analysis of, the risks and impacts of climate change with regard to international peace and security would enable context-specific and evidence-based approaches by the Council. It would also help to sustain the Council’s focus and ensure that it complements the ongoing efforts across the United Nations system. Secondly, we must catalyse greater and higher quality climate finance for fragile and vulnerable countries. There is glaring international underinvestment in food and water systems, as well as infrastructure resilience. Reform of the international financial institutions and multilateral development banks is a critical dimension of our response, enabling them to run towards, instead of away from, destabilizing climate threats.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  5. “We cannot neglect any element of the climate crisis, including its clear implications for international peace and security. With each body contributing within its mandate, our obligation is to reverse the current trajectories with inclusive, effective and responsive climate action. Accordingly, I would like to emphasize four points that should inform the development of a shared response to the perils that we are discussing today. First, the potential consequence of sea level rise, such as disputes over resources, the displacement of millions of people and serious implications for sovereignty and statehood, must be at the heart of maintaining international peace and security. We applaud Malta for bringing this issue to the Security Council’s attention. But we also recognize that it is a response to the gap in this organ’s engagement.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  6. “Warming, rising and acidifying water poses an existential threat, especially to low-lying countries and coastal communities. Many territories are poised to become uninhabitable, even before becoming permanently inundated. We must respond to this crisis with unity and solidarity and with action. We know that we are currently off track with regard to the 1.5°C goals of the Paris Agreement and a meaningfully coping capacity for climate impacts. I serve as the Director-General and Special Representative of the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28). I am joining Member States today because the United Arab Emirates recognizes the urgent need for a coordinated response across the multilateral system.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  7. “Allow me to begin by thanking you, Mr. Minister, and Malta for convening this important debate. I also want to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, for his consistent leadership on this issue. I am grateful to Mr. Csaba Kőrösi, Mr. Bogdan Aurescu and Ms. Coral Pasisi for their insightful briefings to us today. Nowhere are the urgency and the complexity of the climate crisis more evident than in our seas and oceans. Today the Security Council is listening to the testimonies of people living on the front lines of climate change. They are telling us that their security, livelihoods and identities are already under threat long before temperature rises have risen to 1.5°C. Climate change is already having a devastating impact on peoples, livelihoods and lives today. The world cannot look away.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source