Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama participated in the COP 28 World Climate Action Summit, which is being held in the United Arab Emirates, where he stated that “our country aims to become an energy leader in the region and an energy exporter by 2030”, and that it is one of the rare countries with low carbon dioxide emissions.
Rama also criticized what he called “big countries”, which he said “do their best to lecture us”, but not to stop themselves.
“We all know that for decades developing countries like Albania have been trying to tackle development challenges while facing the negative effects of climate change. To put it simply, the burden of climate action continues to fall disproportionately on the shoulders of developing countries, despite our minimal contribution to this crisis while the big polluters do their best to lecture us, but not to to stop themselves”, said Rama.
He added that our country aims to become an “clean energy leader in the region” and energy exporter by 2030.
“Of course on the other hand, we face an extreme hydrological risk because we depend on the climate even though we are already in a full-scale diversification with wind and solar energy. Albania has moved forward with the implementation of nature-based practices over the past few years and this year the Vjosa, the last known wild river in Europe, has been declared a National Park. It was funny though, because the biggest and richest around us in Europe who have tamed all their rivers, lectured us all the time about how important it was to have a wild river in Europe. Finally, let me conclude with a special mention and thank you from the bottom of my heart to the host country of this great event, the United Arab Emirates and President Mohammed bin Zayed who is showing our community of countries what it means to connect words with works”, said Rama among other things.
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