Pre-conference to COP28 Climate Change “The current situation and where the planet is heading in light of climate change”

Introduction:

 Last year (September 2022), a preliminary (meeting) was organized for the 27th Climate Change Conference of the Parties. It was hosted and held at Ain Shams University in Cairo, attended and participated in by a large number of international figures, using webinars technology, and senior specialists and those interested from Egypt in the subject of climate change, its causes and effects.

 A large number of students from a number of African countries studying in Egypt participated in the introductory meeting, which extended over three days of continuous sessions. Teams of them prepared presentations explaining the very small role of African countries in terms of the amounts of carbon emissions and causing global climate change, while explaining the significant negative effects of climate change on the countries and peoples of that continent and the role of their governments in making clear efforts to reduce emissions from their countries in addition to the efforts made by them in Establishing projects aimed at reducing these emissions by replacing the burning of fuel, and what these countries are doing to mitigate the negative effects resulting from climate change on them and their citizens, their plans for development, as well as the efforts of those countries in adapting to some of the negative effects of climate change and the requirements of those countries that are unable to bear them alone, and the need to Special international support from the countries responsible for the largest amount of global carbon emissions.

 Pre-COP 28

 This year, Alexandria University and its president are hosting the preliminary conference for COP 28, which is proposed to be organized during the period from September 11-12, 2023, which Alexandria University hopes to sustain in a series it calls Pre-COP101 to attract the attention of interested people, countries, various institutions, youth, and citizens to the importance of taking climate change issues and its effects seriously. A number of senior international scientists will be invited to participate remotely during the conference sessions, and Egyptian scientists, whether physically present or remotely, will also enrich the discussions during the conference and lead to a number of proposals and initiatives that seek to curb its negative effects and save the planet Earth and then humanity.

 Some Egyptian bodies, such as the Egyptian Scientific Academy, as well as the International Community of Dry Zones from within Egypt, are participating with Alexandria University in organizing the conference, publishing its outputs, and delivering them for presentation during the twenty-ninth Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Agreement, which will be held in the United Arab Emirates in November of this year.

List of names of foreign scientists who will participate remotely (via the Internet) in the “Preliminary Conference on Climate Change” September 11-12, 2023:

1-    Johan Rockström - Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

2-    Richard Damania  - Chief Economist, Sustainable Development Vice Presidency, World Bank

3-    María Fernanda Espinosa - Former President of the UN General Assembly, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

4-    Usha Rao-Monari  - Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

5-    Jo Tyndall - Director for the Environment Directorate, OECD

6-    Tanaka Nobuo (Chair)  - Chair, Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) Steering Committee; Former Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)

7-    Sally M. Benson - Deputy Director and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

8-    Hoesung Lee  - Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Endowed Chair Professor, Graduate School of Energy and Environment, Korea University

9-    David Sandalow - Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University; Co-Director, Energy and Environment Concentration, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

10-  Jeffrey Sachs  - Advisor to the UN SG on sustainable Development University Professor , Columbia University 

11-  Martin Rees  - Co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, UK

12-  Heide Hackmann - Chief Executive Officer of the International Science Council, ex officio, France

13- Nebojsa Nakicenovic - Vice Chair of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA) to the European Commission; Emeritus Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Emeritus Professor of Energy Economics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

14- Yuan T. Lee - Former President of ICSU and of the Academy of Sciences located in Taipei, Nobel laureate

15- Phoebe Koundouri - Professor Economics, Athens University, of Economics and Business (AUEB) and Denmark Technical University (DTU); President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Chair UN SDSN Global Climate Hub & SDSN Europe, PLUS NGIC

16- Achim Steiner - Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme