On 27 August, a week ahead of the Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW, 2 ¨C 6 September in Bangkok, Thailand), senior Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ staff will explain in a 45-minute webinar for journalists how the meeting will be organized, and what to expect in the way of outcomes.

Asia-Pacific Climate Week is an important stepping stone to the 23 September Climate Action Summit convened by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres on 23 September 2019 in in New York and to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Climate Change Conference COP25 in Chile in December of this year.

The meeting aims to support implementation of Asia-Pacific countries¡¯ national climate action plans (Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs) under the Paris Climate Change Agreement and action to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Speaking at the webinar will be:

  • Ovais Sarmad, Deputy Executive Secretary of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Climate Change (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFCCC)
  • Stefanos Fotiou, Director of the Environment and Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµESCAP)
  • Sohel Pasha, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Climate Change Asia-Pacific Climate Week Team Lead

Questions from the media can be taken in advance up to 24 hours before the webinar. Please send your questions topress@unfccc.int.

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About the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFCCC

With 197 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all agreements under the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.

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