[Music] why are we talking about climate change in the middle of a war why are we talking about climate change in the middle of a pandemic because time and again we have let politics overshadow climate conversations we have let the pandemic come in the way of climate policy it's time to take a fresh look at our priorities we say it's time to bring the focus back on climate change and for that today is as good a day as any climate change ladies and gentlemen is the biggest crisis of our times you may be surprised to learn that climate related incidents kill more people every year than violence we are locked we're talking about at least 15 times more debts so this is not an environmental problem anymore this is a humanitarian problem our planet is heating up our lives are in danger our future generations are in danger a child born today becomes a smoker from day one air pollution has become the fourth largest threat to human health only behind high blood pressure dietary risks and 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gentlemen it's my pleasure and honor to welcome you all at vyond's first climate summit but not the last and today i want to start with few questions what is our top priority when we look at the problems that need to be solved like take for example my own country india for decades we have been focusing on bijli sarak pani means electricity roads water food and our entire politics has been centered on these basic issues and even today these issues remain the primary issues of discussion for the average citizen they are being discussed in elections and everywhere on the streets on the other hand issues like climate change issues like mental health are discussed on very elite forums of international conferences and seminars the common citizen and even the mainstream media is still far away from these issues and they still think that climate change is someone else's problem and it will never touch their lives but the fact is that climate change is already changing our lives it's a reality it's all around us i will give you a most basic example about my own life i want to share some personal experiences which are very basic in nature but they tell the story of the impact of climate change and i'll start from myself i come from a middle class indian family and i bought my first air conditioner when i started working before that stage i neither felt the need nor did i have the money to buy the ac but today life without an air conditioner even one day without an air conditioner is unthinkable i wonder what has changed now me the city where i live or the climate and i guess all of these during my childhood we used to have water coolers in our house not the air conditioners and we were fine with it one day i asked my father how did we survive all those years without an air conditioner we used to spend afternoons under the shade of a tree drink water from earthen pots and felt the fresh cool breeze every morning and evening that seems to have disappeared now it's so rare now 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that need to be taken once again i welcome you all to the beyond climate summit thank you so much and i hope you will enjoy the evening thank you over the next three hours we hope to have conversations that will echo beyond these walls and we hope to to have a conversation that will bring or suggest implementable solutions so let's start with the first session of the evening road to change understanding climate change [Music] this is our world and it is changing with climate change rains have reduced in australia in india kasiranga national park has become a net carbon emitter only 25 percent migratory birds have shown up in albania this year in the uk plants are flowering earlier than usual the amazon is losing its green cover but the tundra is becoming greener the world's coldest place is on fire animals and humans are being charred alike our homes are sinking and our children are growing up in a dangerous world this is our world and it is upon us to stop this change let's start by understanding climate change [Music] session one road to change understanding climate change the dialogue partners for this session are former president of mauritius eric sulheim former minister of international development of norway ken o'flaherty the united kingdom's cop 26 ambassador for asia pacific and south asia divya dutt program management officer of the united nations environment program in india moderating this session is sharma upadhyay executive editor of weon [Music] hello again good to have all of you here um i'll start with you amina guri fakim uh you've worked tirelessly on climate change you have pushed for solutions you've pushed for global solidarity you've pushed for science-based efforts to arrest climate change uh what does it feel like when you see that climate breakdown is happening faster than than anticipated and the impact is worse than anticipated first of all uh palki thank you for having me and thank you for jan for giving me the opportunity to raise again my voice on this what i call now an existential threat to humanity unfortunately parque the world is still not waking up to this crisis and it is for us especially islanders and existential threat and i feel that until and unless we treat climate change as an emergency we will not handle it as such and this is i think where the conversation that the gap happens in the conversation we are not taking it seriously we are acting like that frog in that tepid water which is gradually warming up and very soon there'll be no time for adaptation because we're getting too tired and we'll just end up with the boiling water very well put as always uh eric soleim you've uh had an extensive career focusing on on climate change on the environment and you've pushed the private sector to do more uh you've pushed for more investment in conservation efforts but here we are um and in this day and age national parks have become carbon emitters what will it take the for the world to hear the sos call and actually act on it thank you so much for having me on this important event true as i mean i said that problem is huge but we are also more and more now stepping up to the plate and acting and i will point to a few bees which are now acting first of all business in all nations businesses are now well ahead of the political leaders and no nation has i even close to acting in the veil like say microsoft is doing in the us ikea is doing in europe or april the world's biggest pep ramp companies doing in asia secondly brussels the european union is regulating markets in in europe in a completely new way thirdly beijing china is now the lead on every single environment technology whether it's solar or bin green hydrogen liquid mobility china is the lead nation and fourthly bharat or india prime minister moby has put in there on a completely new trajectory launching the green hydro mission for india uh going big into solar very soon and there will be the second biggest solar nation in the world so i see a lot of reasons for optimism also where the problem is big uh but we have acted more during the covenant team than we did for many many years before i think in reality we have done a lot more in the last two years than we did for in the last 20 years before that that you've researched extensively on energy and climate change in india in particular and the world in general i know a lot needs to be done but the fact that political parties are including climate change in their manifestos the fact that governments are actually at least making an effort to be seen to be doing something would you say that it we should be looking at the glass half full um well thank you for that question um i'd say you know what for us i think it's more important to look at the glass half empty and take action because if you look at the assessments that are being done now and the science that is being generated including bayeunep um you know there is sort of a target of 1.5 degrees celsius that we've set for ourselves or we should set for ourselves but even with all the unconditional commitments and all the pledges that countries have taken we are looking at a temperature rise by the end of the century of 20 of 2.7 degrees celsius so even with all the commitments that we've made we are far ahead even of two degrees celsius and we know that anything beyond 1.5 degrees will be catastrophic you know we are already in in many parts of the world we are seeing catastrophes we are seeing disasters of this of a scale that is unprecedented we have not seen it ever in our lifetimes but at two degrees i think we cannot even begin to imagine where we will be and what are the kinds of impacts of climate change that we'll be seeing to reach that 1.5 degrees celsius we need to half g emissions greenhouse gas emissions in the next eight years by 2030. so that is this that is the kind of ambition that we need to have and i think it is only with you know the uh we've seen a lot of countries make net zero commitments we've seen a lot of businesses make net zero commitments i think it is important that these long-term mid-century net zero commitments are translated into immediate short-term action only then can we sort of you know do we have any chance at all of um you know of that little window that we have for one point five degrees right and the window that is shrinking fast kenoflerti you've advocated nature-based solutions uh for asia-pacific uh water levels we know are rising in this part of the world uh indonesia for one is moving its capital city one third of bangladesh was underwater uh until recently in another part of the world uh ice caps are melting faster than ever before what according to you is accelerating this the most i mean the increasing global temperatures are having devastating effects on ecosystems and biodiversity worldwide and so it's impossible to say that one country is suffering more than others but certainly in recent months we have seen extreme weather events across the globe and these are having major impacts on economies and communities across the asia pacific region and we are also seeing problems around deforestation across asia in particular and we're seeing um coral reefs i'm increasingly threatened and damaged and we know in a two degree celsius world for example um 98 of all coral reefs um should be destroyed whereas in a 1.5 degrees celsius world and there's much greater chance of survival and of course these coral reefs are essential for fisheries for tourism and for the um economies of major countries across this region so we are being convinced as cop 26 presidency that nature-based solutions have to be an integral part of all countries approach towards tackling the impacts of climate change we know that one-third of the most cost effective solutions to climate change are nature-based solutions um we therefore as the uk are trying to lead by example by allocating a much greater proportion of our climate finance towards these solutions across this region but we also know that partners are recognizing the importance of preserving forests in the region so it was great to see at glasgow in cop26 um so many countries in this region signing up to the forestry and land use declaration and our president was recently um in indonesia and heard about the work that they're doing there um to protect their force and indeed regenerate large amounts of their forests and i myself was in um sri lanka and bangladesh very recently and i saw firsthand how that work is underway to protect the mangroves in many of these countries which are also crucial for providing livelihoods for the future and also in capturing the carbon they are often more um cost effective than in that regard um so yes you're absolutely right nature-based solutions have been a key part of our approaches culture and sixth presidency of course alongside the other work on driving down emissions um achieving net zero making sure there's strong 30 targets at eliminating the use of co for example as well as supporting our partners on adaptation and loss of damage as well as delivering greater international climate finance indeed although was cop 26 a success or not remains uh a question of debate i mean agree for keem i have some very interesting uh numbers with me it says between 2010 and 2020 droughts floods and storms killed 15 times as many people in highly vulnerable countries in africa south asia and south america as in wealthier countries would you say the impact of climate change is discriminatory in nature and why is that i used to think that um it was discriminate in asia because when you see the impact of climate change you see mostly the vulnerable people actually being impacted and here i'm going to be very blunt i think that we're getting traction we're getting visibility and climate change because the countries in the north now are also being impacted by climate change and i think this is for real we've seen that we've seen fires in australia in places that we never thought we'd see flooding and i'm not going to say that it's uh it's serving anybody it's not going to serve anybody but i think now the awareness has been raised that this is now for real and we have to tackle it but unfortunately we know what the what the problems are we know what the solutions are and i don't think we're moving fast enough i see some countries they're putting target to 2050 but i don't think nature will wait for us until politically we meet the target we know what the problem is the problem is emission we have to cut we have to reduce emission and uh i still do not see how this can happen and as you what you said what we have seen earlier on uh with the war in ukraine i think climate change has been put back in the back burner and so this is in a way a welcome uh effort that we own has put this together that it will bring in the conversation further again because while the war might stop climate change will accelerate that's uh that's a fair point and we will come come to the war as well but you've been the president of your country and you've said that we're behaving like that frog i agree with you when you say that that it's got more visibility because uh the global north is being affected uh but why do you think if everyone agrees that this is a problem and we have a fair idea what the solutions will look like why aren't more governments and leaders doing what needs to be done do would you say that good climate policy makes bad politics i don't think we ha i think we have to go further back i think we have to look at uh year after the second world war when we were setting up all these multilateral organizations we are setting up the u.n for example and the conversation was about for example measuring gdp growth we know that gdp growth is measured by virtue of extraction in fact the entire model the business model of our world is built on extraction so for as long as we're going to have this approach of looking at our gdp at our growth we will be having this conversation forever so i think it is time to rethink how we measure our growth uh what are the indicators we will target but unfortunately some continent like mine african continent we have a very very tight window for growth because even though we have emitted only four percent or less our greenhouse gas emission we are going to be impacted more so i think this is again the composition must be had what is the carbon window that countries must be allowed so that they can grow the economy and fulfill the the the the responsibilities of the promises to the people and at the same time coax those who have been polluting to reduce the carbon impact which brings us back to the question divia who is going to be deciding that um i think i think we know what needs to be done as was just said i think the science is very clear it's very unequivocal about uh you know where we are headed what we need to do i think the solutions are there um i think we need commitment and uh you know i mean i think the mechanisms the global mechanisms are all in place and eventually the success of any mechanism is in how invested stakeholders are in in the success of that mechanism so i don't think we need to sort of rejig systems i think we have everything in place we have the solutions in fact for for a lot of climate you know environmental crisis not just for climate the solutions are there i think it's it's just now um the kind of commitment that we need not just from governments but from businesses from civil society to take solutions at a scale where they will begin to show impact and a difference is what we need i want to take this question to eric solim you've worked very closely in this area and you've pushed for more aid for less developed countries and yet we see climate politics emerging as the biggest hurdle to climate action uh there is a debate over historical emissions there is a debate over who is going to pay more where will the solutions come from and what happens to developing countries how do we expect to create a global response to a global crisis given all of these fault i think you need to change the conversation because the whole idea was first you prioritize economic development and you make a health story of pollution and then you get rich you solve the problem that is the old model that's the 20th century the 21st century is all about the vin vin policies all those policies which are good for the environment good for people's health and well-being and good for economy and growth at the same time and they have them all green tourism green agriculture renewable economics electric mobility they're all available and i think the environment is need to make a new conversation they are trying to scare people into action it didn't work now it's time to inspire people into action and if they allow me a few inspiring examples from in their own nature-based solution which can spoke so nicely about in the state of telling ghana they have they have increased the tree cover by three percent over the last few years that's really impressive in the state of maharashtra they're embarking upon a much better mangrove protection again great service in the city of bengaluru say trees and indian and joe has made has made 30 small forests in the city making the larger people better but also cause and making climate action happening and finally in andhra pradesh they have one million farmers that means six million people beat the feminists into green zero bloodshed or syria edition and farming as supported by the center government but supported by the different ministers chief ministers of andhra pradesh it's huge service and let's set out all these inspirational examples to call on people to do a lot more of this indeed and mumbai has set itself a net zero target for 2050 so efforts are being made but kenoflerti uh like we we all agree i think a lot more needs to be done and climate migration uh is something that uh not many people are discussing yet but that's uh that's an imminent uh crisis that we're looking at climate refugees uh estimates say west africa could see up to 32 million people being forced to move by 2050. uh where will all of these people go well if if i could perhaps just on the back of the last conversation say that i do think that at glasgow we did see a marked step change in the commitment of governments to tackling climate change when the uk took our cop26 presidency on two years ago only 30 percent of the world's economy was covered by net zero targets today that's over 90 percent so i think we have seen um recognition by leaders across the globe of the existential threat that is posed by climate change now other colleagues on the panel have mentioned that it's not enough to have net zero targets we have to ensure that action is being taken now um so that we can keep the 1.5 degrees celsius target alive on that i think the outcome of glasgow was very important that all countries committed to reviewing um their domestic plans for 2030 this year and to come to sharm sheikh at cop 27 in november with clear revised plans where those were not compatible with the 1.5 degree celsius target so i think we are seeing that action i very much agree with um colleagues who have also said that it's important to keep this at the top of leaders attention we have referred um to some of the other competing objectives at the moment but it's clear that we can't keep our eye off the climate crisis no matter how many other crises may be going on this is one which will affect the livelihoods of millions of if not billions of people um worldwide so we as presidency um for the remaining uh ten months i don't know less uh seven months of the year um will continue to push this at leader level uh and across the globe to ensure that that action is being taken including um on issues such as adaptation so the consequences of climate change and on finance where progress was made at glasgow we will meet the 100 billion goal next year but we have to ensure that governments are keeping those commitments now you mentioned climate migration um i think this is just one example of countries dealing with the impacts of climate change and those are not waiting for us to reach net zero emissions they're happening here today i think as presidency we've tried to ensure that countries get the support they need um to tackle those impacts which of course will reduce the risks of emissions so we agreed at glasgow that donors will double international finance and to support adaptation um in the coming period and we will maintain this at the very top of the international agenda our president uh cop president arnold sharma has made clear he has chaired cop 26 from the perspective of the climate vulnerable countries those are the countries which must be guiding our approach um to climate change because they are the forefront of the battle against climate change thank you i mean uh would you say that and not taking away from all the efforts that have been made at cop26 and then the upcoming cop27 uh that these conferences and dialogues make any real progress because while there is a lot of awareness i think at some level there's also cynicism and it's this awareness has not been converted into the sense of urgency uh because one feels that these events have become talk shops um well it does create awareness as you have said and i think some of the panelists have also mentioned the importance having this conversation but in a way there has been a fair bit of cynicism as you have said because i attended cop21 and cop21 i think was important for many reasons because it was one of the successful cops because all the previous one have been disappointing and there has been one promise made the promise was to get the climate fund the 100 billion that we're talking about and as we speak we're still short we still find that this gap and i think at the cop 26 i think miami actually she was very very illumined and actually she was very articulate in highlighting uh the the crisis that the developing countries are facing uh one of the reasons she actually rightly pointed out and is the sdrs this the special drawing rights that developing conditions access and we find that the climate change that the fund had not been capitalized and there's still a gap and the gap as at november 2021 it was about 26 billion u.s dollars or 21 or something like this so this shows this is where i think this cynicism is coming in from developing countries that the promises are not being met and if we don't get access to this fund how are developing countries going to be able to adapt how are they going to get the tools and one thing that i think many people the conversation is missing somewhere is that we are living in an interconnected world and if the curving has shown us anything it has shown us how interconnected we are to each other and also to the environment and this is i think something which has been missing in our conversation because as humans we have taken ourselves out of the environment and yet we are very much part of it and if you want to compress the 24 hours in one well the whole geological cycle in 24 hours we find that as humans we have existed for just five seconds before midnight and just imagine the damage that we have done to this planet so we are destroying the branch on which we are all sitting and that is the question that is the that is the the the statement that we have to make to our kids what are we leaving them in terms of legacy when they'll have nothing and yesterday i was going around uh the city and i saw how we need to protect our soil and in 30 years there'll be no soil for us to farm on and this is something that is not taken seriously this is not something that is of course uh that the dollars are not ringing perhaps enough but we need to look at our environment we need to show our children that we are very much part of the ecosystem and the sooner we come to terms with this the better is going before us right and this uh this conversation this summit is i think an effort uh in that direction uh divya since we're talking about the cop i have to ask can you represent the united nations here uh do you think we need another mechanism another platform uh to come up with enforceable solutions because we understand uh what ties the hands of un and its bodies and and beyond the point they can't do very much and the problems and the disagreements remain the politics remains and every leader is going to be looking at what is happening at home and then looking at their international responsibilities so national interest versus international responsibility um i think i also sort of refer to this point earlier but in any global environmental challenge i think there is you know um there is only so much that an international mechanism can do when it comes to national action and therefore i wouldn't fault the mechanism i would say the mechanism uh the mechanism the success of the mechanism will you know as i said earlier will depend on how invested we are in making it successful and therefore i wouldn't really say that we need a new mechanism but what i would say is that you know unless we create incentives in the system for business unless we create incentives in the system for markets to drive the transition and the change just by you know heavy-handed policies or interventions of course policies are required but heavy-handed dictats are not going to sort of you know push the transition that we require until the market absorbs it and the market pushes it so global mechanisms are in my view there what we need is to strengthen market mechanisms which will drive the change that we want to see right and climate crisis is not a a problem in isolation eric salam we've seen droughts wildfires floods uh destroy crops we've seen marine animals being boiled alive in the sea this happened off the coast of canada recently uh how will countries feed millions of mouths when extreme weather becomes the new normal and are we working in this direction to address this i think the big the biggest singular potential outcome for in the on the negative side is the potential melting of the glaciers in the himalayas if that's to happen it will impact on ganga but rivers will be on the indian border and it will have major impact on maybe two billion people so that that is a catastrophe which we cannot really phantom and we need to step back to avoid it but i i believe ken and his team did a good job in glasgow i mean they brought forward an agreement on deforestation on methane and a number of other issues but i think the focus is wrong it is not about climate diplomacy any longer it's about the political economy it's what government leaders and business is doing microsoft which is of course a huge company is doing much more than any country and it's also much bigger than most countries in the world when it comes to its economy and an impact and just give you a couple of examples i mean in glasgow the major controversy was about 20 billion us dollars that was the difference between what hillary clinton had promised the developing countries on behalf of the rich and what has been actually been delivered but compare that to what happened in china just three weeks after glasgow then the people's bank of china the center bank of china launched a low carbon facility for china that was thousand billion u.s dollars thousand versus twenty and even for the purest nations of the world the lobbyists and the madagascars of this world because it's much more important with the low carbon facility in china because it will lower the price on every available environment technology that's what's happening now mainly thanks to china and to india since copenhagen i was there i've been to so many of these climate conferences in 2009 none of us thought of the potential of the price of solar or being produced by 90 percent and it's much more important than in the diplomatic talk because it makes solar energy now available everywhere in the world you even save money if you move from cold to so on it's not just for the environment it's for your bullet for the state budget it's an economic drive into solar and solar energy by the way in india is not the cheapest energy which has ever existed in the world solar energy set and index the cheapest energy in the world cheapest solar energy ever and in their course can make an enormous contribution to the world by investing in solar at home but of course in africa and many other developing countries keno flaherty um we know that there's a war going on and this war is triggering an energy crisis in europe uh do you fear that it could slow down the transition to green energy if this goes on for too long um i actually think it will speed it up and i think we're seeing it speed it up um the advantages of renewable energy are very clear and the minister has mentioned that just now in two thirds of the world it is already cheaper um before the crisis um to be building new solar than to be building new coal now the increasing cost of fossil fuels are changing that equation even further and we know of course that every single year and the cost of solar energy is also falling so i think that we are seeing many countries including in europe but not also i would say within this region accelerate their move towards renewable energy because it's cheaper but also because it provides much greater energy security if you are no longer importing large amounts of oil gas and so forth you are not subject to the vagaries of the international fossil fuel market and you have much more predictability for your economy and you have a cheaper source of energy now of course um the fact that energy from renewable sources is cheaper is not the only answer to the problem we need to have stronger grids for example in many countries including india to transport the solar energy from where it is produced to where it is needed we need to ensure that governments and provide the incentives for investment by the private sector which i think i totally agree the amount of finance coming from the private sector will dwarf anything from the public sector but there needs to be appropriate structures um fought to attract that investment and of course we need to ensure that the countries which already have mature renewables markets such as the uk which is one of the world leaders in wind for example are sharing our experience with countries in the region i'm pleased to say that is something which we're already doing with our partners in india we have advanced dialogues around energy um here in india indeed with many countries across the region and we're trying to use our presidency um to ensure that countries are sharing their expertise and ensuring that this is a joint endeavor um to speed up the global energy transition which will have the benefit of accelerating um progress towards the 1.5 degree celsius target agreed put in paris now of course quite a part um from the energy transition there must be a risk now that countries take their eye off the other important issues around climate change such as helping countries deal with the impacts which we've been discussing earlier in this discussion i think that's an area where we as cop 26 pregnancy will be working hard to ensure this remains at the top of the international agenda as i said earlier we cannot allow other crises to deflect our attention from the existential crisis that is posed by climate change thank you and i have to say you're the first diplomat [Music] what would your message be to those who are fighting this war um human you've linked war with the species which are destroyed so i think the first message we have to bring home is that there is no planet b we only have this this planet for which we have to fight and of course we have to preserve and save for future generations but i think if you look at uh a war in the middle east let's take the war of syria for example part of it is accounted to climate change and i think we're going to see increasing urbanization and if you look at the content of africa which is going to provide over 1 billion in terms of youth employment employable people in 10 15 years time we find that it's a continent which is going to increase in the urbanized and by 2050 i think 50 percent of the continent is going to be ironized so the friction that this would create and of course not withstanding climate impact of course so we are in in a scenario which doesn't build well for the future and we are in in in a scenario where we'll find food security issues energy security water especially water because i think it has been forecast i think the cia has put in this statement that the next war is going to be the war on water transboundary water fluctuating cycles you name it we have it all there and it's an understanding that climate change has also impacted one million species which are the verge of extinction again i bring back to the first to the previous statement i made that we are interconnected so all the species we're destroying they are in a way ensuring our livelihoods now so what's a stake in the future when there is no planet b so that's the question as far as leaders we have to to actually embrace the conversation absolutely and i think that's a good note to end on i'm told we're out of time for this session but thank you very much for joining this conversation and we'd like to believe it's just the beginning thank you thank you thank you once again to our dialogue partners and most of us understand climate change we acknowledge the risks of climate change we understand that this is something that needs to be funded uh it is warming the planet we understand the need for urgent climate solutions but the question still remains who is going to pay for this who will fund the transformation to a greener world and i think that is the biggest question that the world faces as it tries to solve this problem and we want to discuss this in our next session funding the solution the commerce of climate change please join me in welcoming our keynote speaker for this session amin art shauna she's the minister of environment climate change and technology of the maldives and she's opening this session all the way from malay in the maldives the keynote speaker for this session is aminath shauna minister of environment climate change and technology the maldives former policy secretary to the president of the maldives first of all thank you for having me here and a real pleasure to be with our friends from india as you're probably already aware the maldives is very climate vulnerable the highest point in our country is just about 1.5 meters above the sea and we are 1200 islands so the sea is just all around us sea level rises a threat to our existence which is why reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is a question of national security for us we have increased problems of coastal erosion now happening on most of our islands groundwater is contaminated on every island and our coral reefs are under stress from warming as an island nation our oceans are connected to every aspect of our lives our economy and our future we are only as resilient as our reefs depending on them for survival and livelihood the problem the maldives face is one of finance we need access to affordable finance so we can invest in solar energy projects the indian government is already providing concessional financing for the maldives to build water and sanitation systems in 34 islands one of the largest adaptation measures similarly india and indian renewable energy companies can play a big role we would like you to come to the maldives and help us to build our new and renewable energy infrastructure i take this opportunity to call upon our international community and partners to step up action not only in climate mitigation ambition but also in support for vulnerable states as true climate justice would only be achieved through effective solutions to address the devastating impacts of the climate crisis despite the gravity of our adaptation needs and the magnitude of the investments required to build resilience we also aim to demonstrate leadership in global mitigation ambition at a global scale our total contribution to global emissions is negligible it's just about 0.0035 percent yet we are determined to be a driver of the global solution at the moment the maldivian economy is largely run on imported diesel which is dirty expensive volatile in price and a huge drain on our nation's foreign currency reserves the maldives would like to rapidly deploy renewable energy primarily solar which is no surprise given our reputation sale as a sunshine holiday destination [Music] that honest and heartfelt message from the maldives [Music] [Music]
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