UNFCCC Marrakech 2016 COP22
Prof. Ooi joined the Saudi Arabia convoy in UNFCCC Marrakech Climate Change Conference 2016. The 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and is expected to be attended by delegates from 196 countries.
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"The 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and is expected to be attended by delegates from 196 countries."
A multidisciplinary delegation from KAUST attended the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22), which was held in Marrakech, Morocco, from November 7 to 18, 2016. The KAUST team who traveled to Morocco included faculty, staff and researchers.
COP22 focused on actionable items in order to achieve the priorities of COP21 and the Paris Agreement, and especially those related to adaptation, transparency, technology transfer, mitigation, capacity building and loss and damages.
KAUST researchers Boon Ooi, professor of electrical engineering, Youssef Belmabkhout, senior research scientist in the University's Advanced Membranes & Porous Materials Center, and Ibrahim Hoteit, associate professor of Earth science and engineering, all presented at the event.
In his address, Hoteit discussed how KAUST researchers study the climatic shifts of the Red Sea.
“We study and forecast the circulation and climate of the Red Sea with an integrated data-driven modeling system,” he said.
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