The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states have called for a gradual and balanced approach to climate action, especially in the phase-out of fossil fuel, emphasized the need to align environmental goals with development needs and national conditions. The situation was given during a communicable dialogue with the Ambassador Nasir al-Haye, permanent representative of Kuwait, permanent representatives in Geneva in the United Nations, with the United Nations special coordination on human rights and climate change.
Climate action should respect development and sovereignty
Speaking on behalf of the GCC Ambassador Council, Ambassador Al-Hayen insisted that there should be energy infection:
- Protection of development benefits
- National support
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The GCC countries emphasized that no single approach fits everyone, especially when it comes to nations with different energy and development realities in the global south. This statement highlighted concerns with the report of special synergy, which GCC members described as extremely important of fossil fuels, to shape their energy strategies without adequate accounting for sovereign rights of states.
Call for realistic and inclusive climate structure
Ambassador Al-Hayen reiterated rejection of GCC’s prescriptive model and warned that the multilateral, which reduces global climate agreements, impose hard energy routes reducing the consensus-based process. He said that the United Nations Human Rights Council and its affiliated mechanisms are not entitled to technical rights to implement the energy model or determine national climate policies. GCC’s comment shows the concerns going on between the oil producing countries when a balanced dialogue on the climate, which believes:
- Economic diversification time period
- National development priorities
- Inclusive, cooperative structure required instead of unilateral mandate
