UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced a new “Climate Action
2016” partnership to maintain momentum after the UN climate change
conference (COP21) in Paris, France.
Ban announced on 5 December, that a broad group of organizations will
partner in 2016 to maintain momentum for multi-stakeholder climate
implementation. “I am heartened by the significant and growing
coalitions that are emerging to tackle the challenges of climate change
and realize new opportunities,” Ban underlined at the global event
taking place in Paris, on a day dubbed “Action Day.”
“I am pleased to be joined by so many key partners to scale climate action efforts and make them sustainable,” he added.
The Secretary-General, joined by groups such as the World Bank, the
Global Environment Facility and the Compact of Mayors, and individuals
including Michael Bloomberg – the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy
for Cities and Climate Change – will co-sponsor a “Climate Action 2016”
summit of leaders from government, business, cities and localities,
civil society and academia next 5 and 6 May in Washington, D.C.
According to apress releaseissued by the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the organizer of the conference – this
high-level gathering will complement ongoing implementation efforts and
catalyze actionable, concrete deliverables in specific high-value areas,
including: cities; land use; resilience; energy; transport; tools for
decision makers; and finance.
“[The summit will] show that the things that were talked here in
Paris are actually happening on the ground,” Bob Orr, a Special Adviser
to the Secretary-General on climate change, told the UN News Centre in
an interview.
“The number and the depth of the coalitions that are organized to
deliver action on climate whether through forestry, through industry,
through cities, all the different channels need to move forward as far
and as fast as they can,” he added. “So the Secretary-General is not
only ensuring we have this robust universal agreement, but that we have
the coalition in the field to deliver the goods.”
Orr noted that the meeting is taking place in the United States’
capital as all the partners joining the Secretary-General at the 2016
summit agreed that Washington, D.C. is the “best stop” as it is home to a
number of important international institutions and financing vehicles.
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