2021-03-16 13:36:24 GMT2021-03-16 21:36:24(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SUVA, March 16 (Xinhua) Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama urged on Tuesday the Commonwealth nations to make a stronger commitment to combating climate change in the buildup to the upcoming 26th United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP26), which will take place in Britain in November this year.
According to a Fijian government statement on Tuesday night, while delivering a statement at the first virtual Commonwealth Parliamentary Forum on Climate Change, Bainimarama called for stronger commitment and collaboration among the Commonwealth nations in driving comprehensive action to combat climate change and realization of the future towards net-zero emissions and resilient societies.
NEW DELHI, India, Mar 16 2021 (IPS) - Climate change is one of the most pressing issues that the world is collectively facing at the moment. It is contended that strengthening the global response is pertinent to combat the threat of climate change.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted in 1992 that entered into force on 21 March, 1994, primarily aims to prevent anthropogenic interference in the earth’s climate system and stabilize Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
With this aim, the Conference of Parties meets every year to assess progress and review documents by countries on their plans to combat climate change.
Climate finance of USD 100 billion a year and green technologies for mitigation actions promised in 2009 under the Paris agreement are still not on the table for developing countries, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said in Parliament on Monday. At the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2009, developed countries had committed to mobilising jointly USD 100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries. This commitment has, since then, been a key element of the international climate negotiations. This USD 100 billion is today more than USD 1 trillion. And the finance is not on the table. It is not coming the way it should have come, Javadekar said during the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha responding to a query asked by DMK leader M Shanmughan.
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