A few days ahead of the COP26, scheduled to take place from October 31 to November 12 in Glasgow, the British Embassy held an online media briefing on COP26, in an effort to accelerate climate action and contain global warming.
The online session was held, Wednesday 27 October, by Simon Martin, the UK ambassador to Morocco, Jenny Pearce and Rachid Ennassiri from COP26 coordination at the British embassy.
Martin stressed the importance of implementing the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which sets out a global framework to limit global warming to well below 2 °C, continuing efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C.
For the ambassador, it is a matter of continuing the actions undertaken to fight climate change and accelerate necessary investments for a sustainable, low-carbon future.
The diplomat also referred to the importance of the COP26, which is, according to him, marks a turning point since the spread of the coronavirus.
The British diplomat noted the importance of delivering on the USD100 million commitment to end carbon emissions and reported that 70% of the world’s ecosystem is covered by net-zero emissions, with the need to prioritise the most vulnerable populations to climate change.
In this sense, he set out the objectives of the two countries for COP26, mainly to respect the Paris Agreement.
For their part, the COP26 coordinators at the British Embassy, Jenny Pearce and Rachid Ennassiri, highlighted the COP26 objectives and called on the Kingdom to invest more in renewable energy, encouraging small and large companies to launch a campaign to raise awareness about carbon reduction.
Morocco will be present at COP26 with a large delegation composed of representatives from the public and private sectors, research organizations and NGOs, to consolidate the country’s leadership, under the leadership of the King Mohammed VI, the objective is to promote the Moroccan model in terms of energy and ecological transition, and to continue to promote the Moroccan initiatives undertaken since COP22.
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