Georgetown: Former President and Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo was one of the leaders of an International Climate Conference held in Russia recently.
Jagdeo, a leading global anti-climate change activist, addressed the event alongside the Head of the United Nations Environment Programme Achim Steiner and Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Secretariat Christiana Figueres, commended the outreach by the Russian Government to business enterprises, civil society and the international community as part of its preparation for the upcoming Conference of the Parties 21 (COP 21) Meeting in Paris, France.
Jagdeo shared his perspectives regarding the prospect for and essential components of, a successful agreement in Paris including the need for a global agreement that is legally binding.
He also spoke of the necessity of an agreement on climate financing at scale to allow developing countries to raise their ambition levels on mitigation action (as outlined in their INDCs), adapt to climate change and transition to a green economy.
The former President will also have several bilateral meetings with various stakeholders while in Russia.
Last month, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Jagdeo joined world leaders in New York, as the international community accelerates preparations towards reaching a historic global climate agreement in Paris in December.
While there, Jagdeo emphasised how people from developing countries around the world continued to be united in their desire to provide solutions to climate change.
From November 30 to December 11, global leaders will gather at the Le Bourget site in Paris for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) 12 Summit the Paris Agreement to conclude negotiations on an agreement to address issues of climate change
The new agreement will take the form of a protocol, another legal instrument or ‘an agreed outcome with legal force’, and will be applicable to all parties and will have to bring together the current patchwork of binding and non-binding arrangements under the UN climate convention into a single comprehensive regime.
It is expected to be implemented from 2020.
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