Glasgow Climate Summit 2021

Climate change: What are the challenges for the next two climate summits in Egypt and the UAE after the Glasgow summit?

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Arab newspapers discuss the challenges of implementing the recommendations of the Climate Summit held in Glasgow on the ground.

Many writers are counting on the next two summits in Egypt 2022 and THE UAE 2023 to address aspects that have not been addressed by the Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland.

Several newspapers also provided an assessment of the Glasgow Climate Conference; some felt it was an "important new turning point" and a "step forward", but also considered the conference's recommendations "insufficient and disappointing".

"Bridging the gaps of the Glasgow Summit"

Ahmed Mustafa told the UAE newspaper Al Khaleej that the Glasgow summit "left a lot of issues without a clear resolution, which means that Egypt and the UAE at the next two summits will have to do their utmost to "fill those gaps" in the Agreement of the Parties to Combat Climate Change.

Environmentalists and climate change will have to build on what was achieved at the Glasgow summit, the author said.

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"Glasgow's decisions were important and a step forward, but they are not enough, even by the recognition of the conference organizers," says Dr Kamal al-Sayed in Al Quds al-Arabi.

The author adds: "This is a summit that has not risen to the challenge faced by humanity, and what keeps the caution in pessimism is the hopes of climate conference 27' in Sharm el-Sheikh, to fill the many gaps in Glasgow's decisions, and to push the countries of the world to cooperate genuinely to prevent the environmental disaster. In the face of climate disaster."

Dr. Kamal points out that most of the world's specialists and environmentalists considered the conference's recommendations "insufficient and even disappointing, and their comments prevailed in what we might call cautious pessimism".

"Perhaps the real test of the Glasgow Conference and its historical standing, not in the exact text, is its importance, but essentially in its translation on the ground and in its impact on the concrete reality of "present and future,"

Dr. Kamal urges oil countries in Arab countries to be ready for transition projects to integrate into the global transition to clean energy. 

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"Annual meetings and broad commitments alone will not be enough to save the earth, there is a need to think outside the Fund about greater international cooperation passing through countries," said Osman Mirghani, in London's Middle East newspaper.

The author points out that "people are divided on the results" of the Glasgow conference.

It also refers to the "critical challenges" facing Middle Eastern countries due to the effects of wars with climate change in the region.

"Does the world listen to the accelerated warnings at its pace, or do promises, speeches and 'chatter' continue as the earth moans under the weight of disasters that are seriously life-threatening," Mirghani said.

In the Saudi daily Al-Youm, Walid al-Ahmad criticises the "hypocrisy of climate change" at the Glasgow summit, referring to the fleet of aircraft that picked up the conference participants.

Mubarak al-Kuwari, in the Qatari newspaper Al Raya, considers the Glasgow Climate Summit in Britain a "beautiful initiative", but he believes that "there is a collision with its priorities based on absolute capitalism and based on the collection of the greatest wealth at the expense of human values, one of which is supported by elements of the environment, reflected in the warming of the average climate."

At the end of his article, the author refers to the demonstrations that took place during the conference "to say that the summit is just ink on paper".

"The biggest challenge"

"The Glasgow conference was a new turning point, please don't be late in reviewing and achieving what was agreed before in reverse the trend that humanity went in two centuries ago," he said.

He believes that next year's Cairo conference will be responsible for answering questions such as "How can we act fairly in preserving the planet, while giving a great opportunity to develop many regions of the south of the world?"

Talaat Hafez praises the findings and recommendations of the G20 summit in Rome and the Glasgow Climate Conference.

The author expresses optimism that "the world will be able to implement the recommendations made by these two summits effectively and in a measurable approach. Despite the challenges and disparities between countries' views on addressing common global issues due to the disparity between interests."

"The biggest challenge for all summits remains implementation and commitment to application according to the dates and time limits set," the author says.

"Climate change in Egypt is a reality, not a destructive one," Faraj said in al-Masry al-Youm.

The author is surprised by "the keen interest in sinking the delta despite the weak tidal forces in the Mediterranean, and the neglect of this on the shores of the Red Sea."

"Children's lives and future will be the most turbulent," says Dina Amara in the Egyptian pyramids. Children will bear the brunt of hunger and malnutrition" in light of worsening droughts and floods leading to deteriorating food production, rising temperatures, water scarcity and air pollution.

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By/ Khaled