African Group Negotiators under the Climate Change Convention Convenes

Advocating bringing in positivity before the Paris conference on climate change, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday called for discussions on issues like lifestyle and climate justice.

Climate Interactive, a Washington-based group whose analysis is used by leading governments, said that pre-Paris plans have put the planet one degree Celsius closer to that target.

None of the companies involved would say their own practices are flawless, according to Anne Kelly, who directs Ceres’ climate policy program, but they’ve demonstrated a commitment to changing. This includes details regarding their plan of action in their individual capacity to check the rise of global warming in order to fight climate change as per a post-2020 agreement.

Minister of Environment and Physical Development, Dr. Hassan Abdul Gadir Hilal said that Sudan is no exception and the country is of high vulnerability to climate change, the water, agriculture, coastal zone and health sectors are the most vulnerable.

Numerous companies have set ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and driving sustainable sourcing in their supply chains. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also made a strong pitch for a positive agenda to tackle climate change and appealed that the current climate of negativism is not a useful factor as we approach COP21 in Paris.

General Mills has joined nine other food companies in addressing climate before a large United Nations gathering on the issue later this year. The event featured a half-dozen food company executives. “To reduce emission levels, we must work across our collective value chains with growers, suppliers, customers, peer companies, government leaders and industry partners”.

Advanced industrial nations of the world are determined to “mobilizing jointly $100 billion a year by 2020, to address the needs of developing countries“. Businesses have a responsibility to act but we can’t do it alone. For example, more than 160 countries now have renewable energy targets and policies, China has just announced a new set of domestic actions including a national cap-and-trade program, and climate policies have been adopted in the vast majority of the major countries.