Finance ministers met today in Luxembourg to discuss climate finance, just one month ahead of
the next international climate summit COP22 in Marrakech.
This could potentially pose more problems at
the next international climate summit, as past talks have fallen apart over disagreements on how much wealth should be transferred from rich countries to poor ones.
Not exact matches
The
next international climate change conference is scheduled for December, 2015, but in acknowledgment of the urgency of the issue, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon has organized a
summit of world leaders at the organization's New York headquarters in September.
President Macron's
international climate summit next month in Paris will offer another opportunity for countries to unveil new financial pledges.»
At a U.N.
summit in September to kick off the drafting of an
international climate change accord, Obama spoke bluntly of American responsibility for global warming and pledged to unveil ambitious steps over the
next year to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Chinese President Xi said «we agreed to make sure that
international climate change negotiations will reach an agreement» at
next year's Paris
climate summit.
But last week, over 60
international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative
climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the
next climate change convention slated for December.
This is all set against the weighty backdrop of continuing talks at the COP22
international climate summit in Marrakech and falls within a week of Donald Trump being elected as the
next US president.
Reuters (10/25/12) reports: «EU talks to agree tactics ahead of an
international climate summit in Doha
next month ended in disarray on Thursday, after coal - dependent Poland led opposition to more ambitious attempts to curb atmospheric pollution.»