DUSHANBE, September 25, Asia-Plus –Sirojiddin Aslov, Tajikistan’s Envoy to the United Nations attended the climate change conference that was held at UN Headquarters in New York yesterday, Asia-Plus has learned from Ilhom Rajabov, the director of the Center for Climate Change Studies.
Heads of state and other top officials from more than 150 countries took part at this high-level event. More than 70 heads of state or government will attend the one-day event, making it the largest meeting ever of world leaders on climate change.
The conference was aimed securing political commitment and building momentum for the
UN
Climate Change Conference in Bali where negotiations about a new international climate agreement should start. The Bali meeting, from December 3 to December 14, will convene the Parties to the
UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has called climate change the “defining issue of our era,” has invited world leaders to attend a special one-day event to help map out how the world can move forward to address climate change and support progress at the Climate Change Conference in Bali.
Bali must advance a negotiating agenda to combat climate change on all fronts, including adaptation, mitigation, clean technologies, deforestation and resource mobilization,” said Mr. Ban, who has made the issue one of his top priorities. “Bali must be the political response to the recent scientific reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. All countries must do what they can to reach agreement by 2009, and to have it in force by the expiry of the current Kyoto Protocol commitment period in 2012.”
