🌿Exciting days at the Mediterranean Green Week in Istanbul 🌿Led impactful discussions on green transition, investments, competitive sustainability, adaptation, resilience. Exciting to see so many dedicated to a greener future! @UfMSecretariat @EUClimateAction @AbadiMutaz
To the financial institutions & industries backtracking on climate commitments, I want to say loudly & clearly:
You’re on the wrong side of history.
You’re on the wrong side of science.
And you’re on the wrong side of consumers who are looking for more sustainability, not less.
Climate finance is not charity, it’s an investment.
#ClimateAction is not optional, it’s an imperative.
Both are indispensable to a liveable world for all humanity and a prosperous future for every nation on Earth.
My remarks at #COP29: https://t.co/CKmx0jtqwY
Another line has been dangerously crossed in Lebanon: IDF shelling of @UN peacekeepers whose positions are known.
We condemn this inadmissible act, for which there is no justification.
The EU reiterates its full support to @UNIFIL_ , to its UNSC-mandated mission & its troops.
Today is the International Day of Awareness of #FoodLoss & #FoodWaste 🍽🍏🗑
By reducing food waste, we fight Climate Change, preserve resources and increase space #ForNature & biodiversity
Find 1️⃣8⃣ tips to reduce food waste: https://t.co/IXp56YS9wr
#FLWDay#IDAFLW
"It is time to put a price on pollution, a premium on clean innovation and nature restoration, and scale up this rising market.
Let us work together with these new business models, that are good for the planet and for our prosperity."
— President @vonderleyen on carbon pricing
The fossil fuel industry continues to pocket massive profits and subsidies.
Meanwhile, everyday people bear the costs of climate catastrophe – from rising insurance premiums to lost livelihoods.
Those who shoulder the blame must foot the bill.
#UNGA
I am sorry to see that despite years of talk, gender inequality is on full display at the #UNGA General Debate.
Less than 10% of speakers this week are women.
This is unacceptable – especially when we know gender equality delivers for peace, climate action and much more.
Joint Statement by the 🇪🇺European Union, 🇦🇺Australia, 🇨🇦Canada, 🇫🇷France, 🇩🇪Germany, 🇮🇹Italy, 🇯🇵Japan, 🇶🇦Qatar, 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia, 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates, the 🇬🇧United Kingdom, the 🇺🇸United States
🔗https://t.co/jpNwhgwsrd
Rich discussion on green transition at #decarbomed today! 🌿🇹🇳🇪🇺 renewable energy, clean tech, adaptation measures can build resilience and competitiveness boosting shared prosperity across the Mediterranean!
The Iraqi parliament is advancing legislation that threatens to roll back women's and girls' rights by decades. Legalizing the marriage of 9-year-old girls is not only barbaric but also alarmingly out of touch with modern values. Countries and UN agencies supporting Iraq must take a firm and unequivocal stance against this proposal. Iraqi women and girls deserve far better
https://t.co/xMwpFSdZZP
We rejoice at the news of the liberation of EU colleague & 🇸🇪 citizen Johan Floderus and his compatriot Saeed Azizi. We thank Swedish & Omani authorities. Other EU citizens are still arbitrarily detained in Iran. We’ll continue to work for their freedom together w/ EU MS involved
The EU Methane Regulation is now in place! A central instrument to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save resources. It requires the fossil gas, oil and coal industry in Europe to measure, monitor, report, verify, and take action to reduce their methane emissions 🌱🇪🇺
🔴3rd and last day of the #MedGreenWeek - key highlights on climate action & energy 👇
Following yesterday's discussions w/ @OECD & @IEA on financing clean hydrogen projects in the #Mediterranean, this morning's session of the UfM Energy Platform stressed the need to enhance the work done towards clean technologies and emissions abatement 🔋
📊Debates on #climate finance also allowed us to identify emerging trends and spotlight innovative financing mechanisms to bridge the climate financing gap.
🙌The consolidation of a Mediterranean Alliance of Climate Think Tanks was also just announced!
Our goal: foster groundbreaking research, policy development, and advocacy efforts.
♻️Achieving a sustainable future requires a holistic approach. Stay tuned for more updates from the #MedGreenWeek!
In conflict, civilians always pay the highest price.
War is not the answer.
We need peace.
Thursday is the International Day of Living Together in Peace. https://t.co/6wep5kafAi