Princess Lalla Hasnaa represented King Mohammed VI at the Global Climate Action Summit in Dubai
The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, has spoken out in favor of an Action Pact to address the climate challenge. He did so through his speech given at the Cop28 in Dubai, where he was represented by his sister, Princess Lalla Hasnaa.
The monarch stressed that it is through this Covenant that “humanity can demonstrate through actions that the most ambitious are not necessarily the least accessible.
“As necessary as it is, climate negotiations are not – and cannot become – an end in themselves. There is a time to negotiate and there is a time to act. That moment has come!”, said the Sovereign in his speech at the Global Summit on Climate Action, organized as part of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) held in Dubai.
Noting that “this is an Action Pact that I propose to launch, here and now”, the king noted that, just as climate change increases inexorably, the COPs must move away from the logic of the “little non”, which has characterized them for too long.
In this regard, Mohammed VI explained that between climate action in “small steps” and the imminent climate challenges that are being significantly imposed, a gap is being created that must be filled without delay. From this perspective he stated that among the voices of those who resign themselves to “small steps” and those who swear by “big ruptures”, there is a path made of pragmatism certainly, but also of voluntarism, ambition and vision. .
“This is the path we must take, if our objective is always to respect the commitments made at COP 21 in Paris in 2015, and at COP 22 in Marrakech in 2016,” insisted the Moroccan head of state.
While admitting that the conclusions of the First Global Assessment of the implementation of the Paris Agreement attest to a universal dynamic around the climate issue, Mohammed VI stated that “observed adaptation efforts remain fragmented, progressive and distributed very unequally across regions , and in particular among those most vulnerable to the devastating effects of climate change.
Bold measures are not organized in half measures, much less according to an isolated vision “which only exacerbates risks, amplifies damage and increases material, natural and human losses”, continued the king, noting in this regard that the global management of the climate crisis can only move towards a more adequate approach to national constraints, centered on sustainable qualitative growth and above all on a vision with a humanist vocation.
“In Morocco, the rise of renewable and sustainable energy, the development of competitive green hydrogen sectors, our growing connectivity with global markets and the organization of a football World Cup between two continents are all evidence of the vision of regional integration that we carry forward,” he added.
Stressing that it is precisely this action-oriented approach that Morocco supports, the King explained that the Kingdom’s ambition is “structured in detailed and verifiable action plans, both for adaptation and for mitigation and decarbonisation.
The Kingdom’s objectives in this area are “the result of programs and projects carried out at a national level, first and foremost for us and by us”, clarified the Sovereign, stating that he personally attributes “the utmost value to their implementation and follow-up”. on”.
He recalled that in a still unequal global system, Africa received 30 billion dollars from annual climate finance flows in 2020, or less than 12% of its needs, while this continent has everything it takes to become the global climate solution, the solution to the great challenges of the 21st century.
The monarch of Rabat, in this context, underlined that the annual meetings of the IMF-World Bank in Marrakech concluded that there is an urgent need to reform multilateralism and development financing. Two levers that humanity has created to respond to the challenges of the 20th century.
