{"id":17305,"date":"2016-05-16T15:48:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=17305"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:00:08","slug":"governments-enter-new-era-of-collaboration-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/05\/governments-enter-new-era-of-collaboration-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Governments Enter New Era of Collaboration on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening Remarks at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Climate Change Conference in Bonn<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking at the opening of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Climate Change Conference in Bonn (16 to 26 May), the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\u2019s top climate change official Christiana Figueres said that following the successful conclusion of the historic Paris Climate Change Agreement in Paris last year, governments are leaving behind the phase of negotiations and entering a new era of collaboration.<\/p>\n

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The meeting comes weeks after 176 countries and the EU signed the historic Paris Climate Change Agreement clinched last year in France, and is a key planning event for the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Marrakech in November.Addressing delegates in the opening plenary of the meeting, the Executive Secretary of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres said: \u201cThe whole world is united in its commitment to the global goals embodied in the Paris Agreement, as well as to the means by which to achieve them.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, with the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, you have opened the opportunity to meet the climate change challenge to a great extent by fulfilling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her opening remarks, French Environment Minister and President of COP 21 (the official name of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Climate Change Conference in Paris last year), S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal said the 12 of December 2015 (the final day of the Paris conference, when the agreement was concluded) had shown the world that the international community is capable of unifying to respond to the global challenge of climate and to embark on the path of sustainable development.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the conclusion of the Paris Agreement, our priority is to build on the ambitious, balanced and fair compromises which were reached last December, in order to reinforce action on the ground. The foundations have been laid, it is now up to us build our common house. I call on you to be builders and facilitators,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In his remarks, Salaheddine Mezouar, incoming President of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Climate Change Conference in Marrakech (COP22) and Morocco\u2019s Foreign Minister, outlined the key objectives of the meeting this November.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur ambition for COP 22 is to contribute to the adoption of the procedures and mechanisms to allow the Paris Agreement to be operationalized, and the adoption of an action plan for the pre-2020 period, covering mitigation, adaptation and finance, and to step up capacity building, technology transfer and transparency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Stressing the importance of climate finance, Mr. Mezouar said COP22 would also be an occasion to draw up a road map for concrete and predictable provision of the USD 100 billion governments have agreed will be mobilized for developing countries to green their economies and adapt to climate change.<\/p>\n

To this end, he suggested that governments, along with public and private financial institutions, consider the creation of a \u201cFast Track Facility\u201d for climate finance.<\/p>\n

Following the opening of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Ms. Figueres and the present and incoming COP Presidents planted a tree on the premises of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, to commemorate the signing of the Paris Agreement and to mark Earth Day 2016.<\/p>\n

via Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Climate Change Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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