The leaders’ summit opened on Friday.
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A surprise guest during the opening ceremony. The COP28 leaders’ summit on climate kicked off in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) on Friday, December 1. More than 140 heads of state take the podium, summoned to announce how they intend to increase their commitments to resolve an ever more threatening climate crisis.
To launch these two days of summit, Brazilian President Lula and King Charles III gave speeches. But also Sheikh Zayed ben Sultan Al-Nahyan, who died in 2004.
The former president and founding father of the Emirates appeared in hologram in the room, plunged into darkness. “We welcome all the delegates who have come for this conference”we could hear him say, as shown in the sequence below. “For us, the UAE, conserving and preserving the environment is not a slogan. It is part of who we are.”
The country had already used this technology to reveal its founder. “In 2018, a team of computer graphics artists and 3D experts spent 400 hours researching the speeches given by the late Sheikh Zayed for a four-minute video broadcast at an event replicating his hand gestures and movements. head”explains the BBC.
Following this ceremony, the leaders are expected at the podium. Among them are Emmanuel Macron, his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Vice-President of the United States, Kamala Harris.
