UAE President Sheikh Mohamed on Tuesday welcomed delegates to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's World Conservation Congress at Qasr Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi.
The UAE is hosting the Congress from October 9-15. It is the first time the congress will be hosted in the UAE.
Sheikh Mohamed welcomed the guests, who included Crown Prince Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah, of the Malaysian state of Pahang.
They were accompanied by IUCN President and Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nature Razan Al Mubarak, Wam reported.
Sheikh Mohamed wished the congress success in establishing ways to protect nature, preserve biodiversity and raise global awareness of environmental challenges.
The guests expressed their appreciation for the UAE’s approach to environmental protection, its commitment to sustainability and its support for international collective action in this vital field.
The World Conservation Congress is expected to draw 10,000 visitors, who will attend more than 1,500 sessions on biodiversity and nature across 140 different country pavilions.
It takes place with only five years remaining until the 2030 deadline for the Paris Agreement, a key part of which is to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
Key issues at the event will include scaling up conservation efforts to address the global biodiversity crisis and reducing climate overshoot risks.
The language of diplomacy in 1853
Treaty of Peace in Perpetuity Agreed Upon by the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast on Behalf of Themselves, Their Heirs and Successors Under the Mediation of the Resident of the Persian Gulf, 1853
(This treaty gave the region the name “Trucial States”.)
We, whose seals are hereunto affixed, Sheikh Sultan bin Suggar, Chief of Rassool-Kheimah, Sheikh Saeed bin Tahnoon, Chief of Aboo Dhebbee, Sheikh Saeed bin Buyte, Chief of Debay, Sheikh Hamid bin Rashed, Chief of Ejman, Sheikh Abdoola bin Rashed, Chief of Umm-ool-Keiweyn, having experienced for a series of years the benefits and advantages resulting from a maritime truce contracted amongst ourselves under the mediation of the Resident in the Persian Gulf and renewed from time to time up to the present period, and being fully impressed, therefore, with a sense of evil consequence formerly arising, from the prosecution of our feuds at sea, whereby our subjects and dependants were prevented from carrying on the pearl fishery in security, and were exposed to interruption and molestation when passing on their lawful occasions, accordingly, we, as aforesaid have determined, for ourselves, our heirs and successors, to conclude together a lasting and inviolable peace from this time forth in perpetuity.
Taken from Britain and Saudi Arabia, 1925-1939: the Imperial Oasis, by Clive Leatherdale
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