TOKYO, Japan, March 3, 2011 -
Environment Minister Karl Hood is attending the 9th Informal
Meeting on Further Actions against Climate Change which opened on Thursday in
Japan.
Mr Hood, who also holds ministerial
responsibilities for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Export Development,
will be making a presentation on Adaptation and leading the discussion on
further actions to be taken following the United Nations Climate Change
Conference in Cancun, Mexico last December.
The two-day meeting, jointly
organised by the governments of Japan and Brazil, is being attended by
officials from around the world.
Speaking ahead of the meeting, the
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres called on governments to quickly
transform the Cancun Agreements, agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference in
Mexico, into tangible action on the ground, and provide clarity on the future
of the Kyoto Protocol.
“Governments must now implement
quickly what they agreed in Cancun and take the next big climate step this year
in Durban,” she said.
Ms. Figueres described the outcome of
the UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico as a solid step forward for strengthened
global climate action, encompassing the basis for the largest collective effort
the world has ever seen to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Minster Hood returns to Grenada on
Sunday.
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