Georgetown: Cabinet has approved the appointment of a Taskforce to advance Guyana’s engagement in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process.
This was disclosed by Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman, who submitted the memorandum to Cabinet, seeking its approval for the appointment of this Taskforce.
This approval, according to the Minister, will ensure that by September 28, 2015, Guyana’s position on its intended nationally determined contribution will be in place, putting Guyana in a better position to participate meaningfully in the Sustainable Innovation Forum (SIF15) annual Conference of Parties (COP21), scheduled for December 7-8, 2015, at the Stade de France in the Le Bourget area of Paris, France.
According to information from the official COP21 website, approximately 40,000 delegates representing each country, observers and civil society members will participate in this crucial event.
The COP is made up of all “States Parties” to the Convention and is the supreme decision-making body. It meets every year in a global session where decisions are made to meet goals for combating climate change.
COP21 will be a crucial conference, as it needs to achieve a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C. The host country will therefore be playing a leading international role to ensure points of view converge and to facilitate the search for consensus by the United Nations, as well as within the European Union, which has a major role in climate negotiations.
This Framework Convention is a universal convention of principle, acknowledging the existence of anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and giving industrialized countries the major responsibility for combating it.
