New Delhi (IANS) | Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani has been appointed as a member of the Consultative Committee to the President of the 28th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Mukesh Ambani COP28 Advisory Council along with other important global leaders like Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, Olafur GrÃmsson, Chairman of the Arctic Circle (former President of Iceland), COP21/Paris Agreement President, Laurent Fabius, former Prime Minister of France, International Renewable Energy Francesco La Camara, Director General of the Agency (Irina), was joined by Bob Dudley, President of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI).
Mukesh Ambani is the only Indian in the COP28 President’s Advisory Committee apart from Sunita Narayan, director general of the Center for Science and Environment.
The COP28 UAE Consultative Committee brings together the climate expertise of thought leaders from six continents. Covering policy, industry, energy, finance, civil society, youth and humanitarian action, the Committee’s 31 members, 65 percent of whom are from the Global South, will provide guidance and advice to the COP Presidency through COP 28 and beyond.
The UNFCCC Secretariat announced in January 2023 that Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and UAE Special Envoy for Climate Change, has been appointed COP 28 President-designate.
The United Arab Emirates has been chosen to host the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) from November 30, 2023 to December 12, 2023. It will be held at Dubai Expo City.
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