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Sunday 06 Dec 2015 - 12:27 Makkah mean time-24-2-1437
Pic: UN News Center
Paris (IINA) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday announced at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) that a broad group of organizations will partner in 2016 to maintain momentum for multi-stakeholder climate implementation.
“I am heartened by the significant and growing coalitions that are emerging to tackle the challenges of climate change and realize new opportunities,” Ban underlined at the global event taking place in Paris, on a day dubbed “Action Day.”
“I am pleased to be joined by so many key partners to scale climate action efforts and make them sustainable,” he added.
The UN chief, joined by groups such as the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and the Compact of Mayors, as well as individuals including Michael Bloomberg – the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change – will co-sponsor a “Climate Action 2016” summit of leaders from government, business, cities and localities, civil society and academia in Washington on 5-6 May.
According to a press release issued by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the organizer of the conference – this high-level gathering will complement ongoing implementation efforts and catalyze actionable, concrete deliverables in specific high-value areas, including: cities; land use; resilience; energy; transport; tools for decision makers; and finance.
"(The summit will) show that the things that were talked here in Paris are actually happening on the ground,” Bob Orr, a Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on climate change, told the UN News Centre in an interview.
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