Mainers Preparing for UN Climate Change Conference

World leaders have expressed their support for the COP and have reaffirmed that they will attend the start of the Conference on 30 November, said Janos Pasztor, the UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, noting that more than 120 have confirmed their participation in the 21st Meeting of the States Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is expected to run through 11 December.

US President Barack Obama, China’s Xi Jingping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are among the 138 leaders who will attend the climate summit in Paris starting November 30.

The leaders of both the delegations held a detailed discussion on various key issues on negotiating table and assured each other of developing key bridging proposals on major issues, Bureaucracy Today has learnt.

Mainers representing several environmental groups are headed to Paris beginning next week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

“Canadians expect their government to be responsible around climate change and addressing the impacts of the environment we’re facing around the world right now”, Trudeau said after the swearing in ceremony. Climate activist Eros Sana of 350.org criticized the “contradiction” of the government banning the marches while encouraging Parisians to visiting cafes restaurants and movie theaters.

A few 170 nations accounting for more than 90 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas output have filed carbon-cutting plans ahead of the Paris meeting. Success may elude Paris if developed countries continue to evade their responsibility to provide adequate financial resources and transfer appropriate technologies to developing countries to enable them to enhance their own domestic efforts.

“The CEOs, who represent Dollars 2.13 trillion in revenue?- equivalent to India’s GDP – say that an economically sustainable shift to a low-carbon future will create “jobs and growth” across the world”, WEF said in a release.

But he added that they are “putting their travel plans where their mouths are”, meaning that their presence in Paris should be seen as proof of how seriously they take the climate issue.

“So the conference is going ahead and all the related events are going ahead”, he said.

Although Mr Pasztor said this is progress, he stressed that it is not enough.

The United States has consistently said it will not inscribe its emissions reduction targets – 26-28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025 – in a legally-binding worldwide treaty.

He stressed that the Paris conference “must mark the floor, not the ceiling of our ambition”.

“We will act as ambassadors for climate action, focusing on solutions and economic opportunities and using “the science debate is over: climate change is real and addressable” as one of common themes to raise public awareness”, the letter said.