Brief

The UAE’s Minister of Climate Change and Environment, along with the climate change activist and actor, Harrison Ford, issued some stark warnings on protecting the world’s oceans. H.E. Dr Zeyoudi pointed out that an expected 250,000 deaths, attributed to the effects of global warming, could be prevented from 2030 to 2050. People are expected to die from exposure to heat, malaria, malnutrition and lack of drinkable water, according to Dr Zeyoudi, who pushed for action, saying: “Everyone has an integral part to play in this battle.” Ford emphasized that, “The (climate) problems are global. The solutions must be global. All of us, whether rich or poor, powerful or powerless, will suffer from the effects of climate change and ecosystem destruction and we are faced with, I believe, the greatest moral crisis of our time; that those, least responsible for nature’s destruction, will suffer the greatest consequences,” he concluded.

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