Seychelles’ President pleads for “urgency of deliberations in Dubai” COP28 in pursuit of sustainable future

Photo: (State House). Retrieved from seychellesnewsagency.com

The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, highlighted the urgency of deliberations in pursuit of a sustainable future at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai Expo City.

In his address on Friday at the high-level segment for heads of state and government, Ramkalawan continued his appeal to other world leaders to seize this moment to reverse the course and forge a sustainable and resilient future for generations to come.

“As parties to the convention, we committed to deliver on commitments such as the $100 billion promise, scaling up adaptation finance, new collective quantified goal on finance and most recently the Loss and Damage Fund. We are yet at another COP and I am disheartened to state that most of these commitments are yet to be fulfilled despite the urgency required to address the climate crisis,” he said.

Ramkalawan called on leaders for their unwavering shift in political-will that will translate into concrete actions so as to confine global temperature rise within the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, is among the small island states affected by climate change despite contributing very little to global emissions.