Mexico Joins Nearly 200 Nations on Climate Change IANS
go to original November 20, 2016

Global climate talks end with show of unity (DW News)

Nearly 200 countries reiterated global climate action across a broad range of areas at the 2016 UN climate Change conference as they fast-tracked the political and practical aims of the historic Paris Climate Change Agreement, the UFCCC said on Saturday.

Multi-billion dollar packages of support for clean technologies, building capacity to report on climate action plans and initiatives for boosting water and food security in developing countries were also among the new announcements at almost fortnight-long summit that concluded in this Morocco’s tourist destination on Friday.

The parties — 196 nations and the European Union bloc — set a rapid deadline of 2018 to complete the rule book for operationalizing the Paris Agreement to ensure confidence, cooperation and its success over the years and decades to come.

Businesses, investors, cities and local governments also issued new climate change commitments, adding to the thousands announced in the run up to the Paris climate conference last year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said.

“The landmark Paris Agreement set the course and the destination for global climate action. Here in Marrakech, governments underlined that this shift is now urgent, irreversible and unstoppable,” an official statement quoting UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa said.

...“2017 must be the year of large-scale projects, of mobilising finance, and accessing financial facilities that will be necessary for adaptation,” COP22 President Salaheddine Mezouar said.

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