AMMAN — Deputizing for
His Majesty King Abdullah, Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh Tuesday took part in a session to
launch the Climate Change Initiative in the Middle East and Eastern
Mediterranean at the COP27 Climate Summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm
El-Sheikh, chaired by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in the presence
of Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades.
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In an address he
delivered in the presence of Environment Minister
Muawiya Al-Radaydah and
Jordanian Ambassador to Egypt Amjad Al-Adayleh, the prime minister thanked
Egypt for hosting the conference and Cyprus for “this important initiative”,
stressing Jordan’s support for it.
The prime minister said that the initiative comes at
a critical time, when there is urgent need to respond to the impact of climate
change on our region, which faces major environmental challenges, stressing the
importance of “taking this global momentum to work for our countries, the
region and the world”.
The climate change crisis in Jordan, he said, poses
multiple economic, environmental and social challenges; it compounds the
problems posed by scarce resources and sharp population increase due to
political crises in the region, which pushed a large and sudden influx of
refugees from neighboring countries into Jordan.
He referred, in this context, to Jordan’s initiative
to launch interrelated climate and refugee initiatives to shine a light on the
unique double challenges facing countries: climate change and population
displacement.
The prime minister said Jordan is stepping up
efforts to reach environmentally and socially sustainable comprehensive growth,
to address development challenges, and to achieve national ambitions and honor
international commitments.
“Today is an important opportunity to underline
collective action at the regional level, to face common climate challenges, and
for our voice in the region to be heard,” he said, pointing out that
environmental and climate challenges do not recognize borders, thus
necessitating regional cooperation to confront them.
Khasawneh stressed the importance of building
capacity, transferring technology, exchanging expertise, and implementing joint
ventures based on complementarity among the countries of the region as key
tools for cooperation.
He said comprehensive and sustainable growth is
unachievable for all unless developed countries deliver on financial pledges to
enable developing countries to deal with the environmental challenges that are
growing by the day.
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