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Mukesh Ambani joins COP28 Advisory Committee
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IANS | 26 May, 2023
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, has
been appointed as the member of Advisory 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 joined other important global leaders on the COP28 Advisory
Council such as Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, Olafur
Grimsson, Chairman of Arctic Circle (Former President of Iceland),
Laurent Fabius, President of COP21 / Paris Agreement, Former Prime
Minister of France, Francesco La Camera, Director General, International
Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Bob Dudley, Chair of the Oil & Gas
Climate Initiative (OGCI), former CEO of BP.
Mukesh Ambani is
the only Indian, other than Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for
Science and Environment, on the Advisory Committee to the President of
COP28.
The COP28 UAE Advisory Committee brings together the
climate expertise of thought leaders from countries across six
continents. Representing policy, industry, energy, finance, civil
society, youth, and humanitarian action, the 31 members of the
Committee, of which 65 per cent are from the Global South, will provide
guidance and counsel to the COP Presidency in the run up to COP28 and
beyond.
The UNFCCC Secretariat announced in January 2023
appointed Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced
Technology and UAE Special Envoy for Climate Change, as COP 28
President-Designate.
UAE has been chosen to host the 28th session
of the Conference of Parties (COP 28) 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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