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Kadry

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2023-06-13
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  1. “There is a need for simplified climate-financing tools that are tailored to conflict countries and reach those most in need, as well as serve climate adaptation, which is a top priority for the region. I will conclude by mentioning the most important piece of the puzzle: political will. That will is the very characteristic that sets us apart as human beings. It is the will that can make us move mountains or stay where we are. I acknowledge the difficulty of the task at hand, but I urge the Council to innovate and recreate multilateral tools that will live up to the challenge and ensure that struggles and hardships are not passed on to my generation and those of the future.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  2. “The Arab Water Council and the League of Arab States have created mechanisms to advance this agenda at a regional level. The COP28 presidency is dedicating for the first time a thematic day for relief, recovery and resilience. In my capacity, I am contributing to CGIAR’s global agenda on climate-security, with a regional focus on the Arab world, based in Cairo and aimed at generating local and context-specific knowledge on the topic. It is important to leverage those regional processes as a bridge between the local level up to the Council. Fourthly, climate financing needs to reach those most deserving of it. The climate financing issue is a big one, but there are few points I want to emphasize. Reparations need to be paid to the countries that contributed the least to this problem to enable them to adapt and deal with loss and damage.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  3. “Another way is through utilizing innovative, state-of- the-art science on food, land and water systems, which are central to the climate security nexus, such as through the newly launched CGIAR Climate Security Observatory, a decision-support tool helping stakeholders understand how climate is exacerbating the root causes of conflicts, where that is happening and to whom and what can be done to mitigate the vicious cycle of climate and conflict. Thirdly, over the past few years, there has been growing attention to this agenda at the Arab regional level. Most noticeably, the President of the twenty- seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) launched the Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace initiative.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  4. “First, people are the ones who bear the brunt of conflicts, the climate crisis and any vacuums created by dysfunctional systems. However, they are at the centre of adaptation, creation and innovation. I invite the Council to revisit how effective peace and security tools are in supporting people’s innovations and building their resilience, particularly those of women and youth. Secondly, evidence-based, timely and accurate knowledge has always been key for sound decisions and interventions. I advise the Council to broaden the spectrum of research that informs its decisions. One way to do that is through leveraging local Arab networks, researchers and thinkers who are skilful, speak the language and have cultural appropriateness to generate a bottom-up understanding of climate-resilient peace.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  5. “I invite the Council to think about the intended and the unintended consequences of the energy transition on the Arab region and what it means for sustaining peace. What needs to be done? I will put forward four recommendations. But first I want to echo a core idea from former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s An Agenda for Peace, a report that has shaped my thinking on many of these issues — it is the idea that preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding at their core should address the deepest causes of conflict. The climate and peace and security agenda should therefore be anchored in prevention, resilience, risk mitigation, justice and equity. I will move on to my four recommendations.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  6. “Secondly, conflict and fragility weaken governance, cause political friction and damage the social fabric of societies. They also destroy physical infrastructure, water infrastructure, housing, education and health-care facilities. They simply destabilize every resilience tool and drives societies into a very dangerous and uncertain pathway. In simple words, conflicts multiply risks and challenges and take away the tools that can be used to face the climate crisis. Thirdly, there are global forces and processes, including the energy transition that, if by design they do not serve human development or bring benefits to local development, we run the risk of reinforcing the same inequalities and leaving the root causes of conflict and fragility unaddressed.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  7. “I take this opportunity to bring to the Council’s attention three issues that are of importance to the Arab region when talking about the climate change and peace and security agenda. First, in many countries in the region, the social contract is anchored in the provision of affordable goods and commodities and basic services, and there are multiple instances in which price spikes have been a driver for popular unrest and instability. It is important to be mindful that, in a context in which climate change destabilizes food, land and water systems, the prospect of securing food, water and energy needs is undermined, and that can act as a major destabilizing factor, particularly given the fact that the region is one of the most water-scarce in the world and is heavily dependent on food imports.”

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  8. “It is a region that has endured — and in some parts continues to endure — conflict, political instability, economic hardships, mounting debts, a shrinking fiscal space and ever-harsher climate impacts, which has made it harder and harder for people to secure the basics of a decent life and has pushed people to use every mean and tool to adapt and survive. What I am afraid of is that, if we do not step up to the magnitude of the climate crisis, a warming climate will put my generation and future ones right in the face of multiplying dangers and insecurity. The scientific evidence for climate impacts in the region is clear and strong, and we are by no means on an equal footing with the forces of nature.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  9. “Ms. Kadry: I would like to thank the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations for kindly inviting me here today and giving me the opportunity to speak to the Security Council about climate change and peace and security and what it means for the Arab region. Throughout history, the Arab region has been a land of great civilizations and major contributions and breakthroughs for the advancement of humankind. It is now home to one of the youngest populations in the world — one that I would confidently say is also the most resilient, despite the concurrent challenges and hardships that it has been facing over the past decades.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source