Dr.. Mohammed Al-Sayyad *
Climate change and sustainability issues are at the forefront of contemporary economic cooperation agendas. Local, regional and international conferences, meetings and gatherings are held in succession, devoted to discussing its topics and reaching common denominators and appropriate approaches to implement its outputs. The frequency of holding these forums has increased in recent times to confirm this priority export of the global agenda, despite its competition on the part of current geopolitical issues that have spoiled the climate of international relations.
In the midst of the process of intensifying the frequent meetings of these forums, in addition to the goal of reaching common denominators and their appropriate implementation approaches, lies the attempts and efforts to bring together the owners of different visions, which also explain the faltering and slow steps achieved so far, which were and still are the major obstacle to achieving an important breakthrough. It can be considered as a reliable approximation to achieving the goal of Article II of the Paris climate agreement, which stipulates that the weather temperature should not be allowed to rise more than 1.5 degrees above its pre-industrial level (around 1850).
However, many climate lobbies that hide behind the facades of “NGOs” (non-governmental organizations), to hide their undeclared agendas, especially those related to their blatant and convulsive hostility to traditional energy sources, oil, gas and coal (fossil fuels), are still active, with the help of some media facades. Western countries, especially those affiliated with the European Union Commission in Brussels, to confuse rational and balanced approaches for responsible and practical international dealing with the challenges of climate change, and cause wasting precious time needed by the set time periods to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
The good thing is that many of those concerned with climate issues and their relationship to the requirements of economic and social development have begun to understand the reality of these organizations, their connections and sources of financing, as politicized climate fronts driven by well-known Western agendas, and goals that are no longer hidden among the climate negotiation teams of developing countries – after the rational position of A balanced bloc of the parties to the climate negotiation is approaching more and more the balance regarding the energy transition process at the local and international levels, in terms of its inability to be achieved in the event that those who we tend to call the climate orthodox continue their hostile stances against fossil fuels, and they are the ones who have been silent about the retreat of all The member countries of the European Union have abandoned many of their extreme climate policies, including reopening coal mines as a source of power for factories and electric power plants.
These extremists are only concerned with the climate issue except by erasing fossil fuels from existence, without regard either to the consequences of this adventure on the economies of many countries and peoples in the world, or to the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement that take into account these caveats. They do not care about the innovative technological solutions that are found and disclosed regularly all over the world, and which flow into the efforts of transformation and a safe, calm and gradual transition to the energy systems operating in the world, as we saw that, for example, at the World Future Energy Summit, which concluded its fourteenth session on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi, which witnessed the signing of important partnerships to transfer innovative technological solutions in the fields of energy and sustainable development to the field of productive applications, in order to achieve climate neutrality and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) described in the United Nations General Assembly resolution issued on 25 September 2015 and required to be achieved by 2030; And the establishment of qualitative partnerships and support for emerging companies, as part of a package of events and activities that the UAE will organize throughout the coming months, in preparation for its hosting of the Twenty-Eighth Conference of the Parties (COP-28) from November 30 to December 12, 2023.
The climate orthodox do not care about the fact that some countries that produce one of the fossil fuel sources, gas, can make a significant contribution to achieving the goal of climate neutrality, all the way to a net zero emission balance. These countries, including some Arab countries that have commercial reserves of natural gas, such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia, are already planning to produce “blue hydrogen” (which is produced by splitting natural gas into hydrogen that can be used as clean fuel, and carbon dioxide that will be captured and stored with a capture technology). Carbon Storage and Use (CCUS) The same applies to green hydrogen, which Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Kuwait (because of their geographical capacity) have promising opportunities to produce by electrolytic separating water to produce hydrogen and oxygen, so hydrogen is used as fuel, while safe oxygen is released into the atmosphere. To talk a sequel about the seriousness of the positions of these climate Orthodox, on the course of the upcoming climate negotiations.
Bahraini writer
