UNDP Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of Bureau for Policy and Programme Support Haoling Xu said on Wednesday that the development efforts in the Doha Programme of Action (DPoA) are a source of hope and of great importance as they seek to ensure high living standards in the least developed countries (LDCs).In an interview with Qatar News Agency (QNA), Haoling Xu stressed the need to build human capacity and ensure the capital flow in order to deal with all other challenges. The member states of the UN adopted the DPoA a year ago, to help the LDCs achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), he said, noting that the 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) is held one year after the adoption of the DPoA, with the aim of evaluating what has been achieved, discussing the main challenges and problems facing the LDCs, identifying the best ways and practices to move forward and mobilizing international support for them.Haoling Xu highlighted Qatar's important role in assisting and supporting the LDCs with Doha having played a major and inspiring role for the international community to unite and discuss the existing challenges and the results achieved. Qatar has launched many projects to assist the LDCs, most notably the Climate Promise, a UNDP programme seeking to help 120 countries around the world to strengthen their national contributions and support for the LDCs.He stressed the need for backing the LDCs, which are the most vulnerable to climate change, to adapt and enhance their abilities to store drinking water so that they can deal with fluctuating weather patterns. Haoling Xu warned against many potential negative effects due to climate change, prompting the need for all countries to renew their commitments in order to achieve the 1.5C target limit, and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. (QNA)
March 08, 2023 | 03:03 PM