Emerging technology will allow the world to make progress while "coexisting peacefully with our fragile planet", an Emirati diplomat said on Tuesday.
Khaled Al Qasimi, the deputy head of mission at the UAE's embassy in the UK, told a London conference that technology such as electric cars and smart power grids were an "indispensable pillar" of the battle against global warming.
The London Climate Technology Show heard a call for the Cop28 summit in Dubai to promote the use of green innovations.
The UAE wants the UN climate conference to be "the first of many to come where we see action more than ideas", Mr Al Qasimi said.
The world will use Cop28 to sign off the first “global stock-take”, checking on what has been done to tackle climate change.
A report underpinning the stock-take calls for existing clean tech to be “rapidly deployed” alongside an “accelerated innovation, development and transfer of new technologies”.
Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga, a UN official overseeing collective climate progress, called this a “fundamental finding” of the stock-take.
Developing countries often use climate talks to insist that the race to net zero should not stand in the way of their economic development, with new technology tipped to square the circle.
The UN expects countries at Cop28 to “join forces and advance the uptake of climate technology to achieve an inclusive, transformative and sustainable future for all,” Ms Kinuthia-Njenga said.
Mr Al Qasimi said developments such as smart power grids, electric vehicles and green construction methods were a path to "lower carbon footprints, while also creating new economic opportunities".
“In our efforts against global warming, technology is an indispensable pillar," he said.
“As the world’s population grows and industrialisation advances, so does the need for energy and resources. It is an undisputed fact that technology enables us to decouple progress from environmental deterioration.
“It allows us to meet our energy and resource needs while coexisting peacefully with our fragile planet. Technology must pave the way to a more sustainable, affluent future."
The call to deploy clean tech is one of 17 "key findings" in the stock-take report handed to world leaders. It says research and development "is vital" to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, especially in "hard to abate" industries which typically use large amounts of energy generated by fossil fuels.
The stock-take, the first under the 2015 Paris Agreement, will conclude its "political phase" at the summit in Dubai where almost 200 countries will decide what to make of the progress report.
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October 26: Bahrain withdraws from a proposal to create a federation of nine with the seven Trucial States and Qatar.
December: Ahmed Al Suwaidi visits New York to discuss potential UN membership.
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March 1: Alex Douglas Hume, Conservative foreign secretary confirms that Britain will leave the Gulf and “strongly supports” the creation of a Union of Arab Emirates.
July 12: Historic meeting at which Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid make a binding agreement to create what will become the UAE.
July 18: It is announced that the UAE will be formed from six emirates, with a proposed constitution signed. RAK is not yet part of the agreement.
August 6: The fifth anniversary of Sheikh Zayed becoming Ruler of Abu Dhabi, with official celebrations deferred until later in the year.
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September 3: Qatar becomes independent.
November 23-25: Meeting with Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid and senior British officials to fix December 2 as date of creation of the UAE.
November 29: At 5.30pm Iranian forces seize the Greater and Lesser Tunbs by force.
November 30: Despite a power sharing agreement, Tehran takes full control of Abu Musa.
November 31: UK officials visit all six participating Emirates to formally end the Trucial States treaties
December 2: 11am, Dubai. New Supreme Council formally elects Sheikh Zayed as President. Treaty of Friendship signed with the UK. 11.30am. Flag raising ceremony at Union House and Al Manhal Palace in Abu Dhabi witnessed by Sheikh Khalifa, then Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
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December 9: UAE joins the United Nations.
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