DUBAI, UAE, 25 July 2023: Speaking of the upcoming COP28, in Q4 2023 in the UAE, Ahmed Khashan, President of Gulf Countries, Schneider Electric, said the world needs determination, pragmatism and clairvoyant leadership to get itself back on track and keep global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C. Saying that it will not be easy to achieve, Khashan said Schneider Electric is committed to addressing the biggest challenges of climate change and social inequality. “That is why we signed the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment’s Climate Responsible Companies Pledge, last week,” Khashan said. “This agreement binds us to implement goals to reduce carbon emissions, adopt more sustainable practices and work in the spirit of collaboration and cooperation to drive the Emirates towards a net-zero future.”

Ahmed Khashan

Khashan said the Pledge creates a foundation for collective action and shared efforts to transition to a sustainable, affordable, reliable and modern energy landscape. To do this, Khashan said, the world urgently needs strong partnerships between the public and private sectors that combine the simplification of government regulatory policies with the adoption of innovative financing mechanism that leverage technological innovation, vocational training and capacity building. To solve the environmental challenges facing humanity, governments and businesses must collectively step up and take responsibility, Khashan said.

Signing the UAE Climate Responsible Companies Pledge shows that there is a growing, galvanised nucleus of representatives from the private sector, NGOs and government committed to sustainable transformation, Khashan said. By actively engaging in collaborative climate action, Schneider, Khashan said, hopes to inspire other organisations and stakeholders to join this collective ambition for a greener world. “It is written into our genetic DNA,” Khashan said, speaking of Schneider. “It goes into every line of code we write for the software we develop, every product we produce and every service we render across homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructure and industries.”