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Peru's Environment minister opens Youth Conference on Climate Change

LIMA,PERÚ - NOVIEMBRE 17. Ministro del Ambiente 
Manuel Pulgar Vidal  expone en COP20 Foto: ANDINA/Norman Córdova

LIMA,PERÚ - NOVIEMBRE 17. Ministro del Ambiente Manuel Pulgar Vidal expone en COP20 Foto: ANDINA/Norman Córdova

11:55 | Lima, Nov. 28.

Minister of Environment, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, representatives of the United Nations (UN) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), inaugurated on Friday the 10th Conference of Youth on Climate Change (COY10).

COY10 aims to gather a thousand youth people to have a better understanding about the climate negotiations in COP20. Among them there will be 250 Peruvian leaders.

This event seeks to congregate 1000 youth from all over the world in Lima.

It is held in the framework of the twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) to take place Lima, on December 1 to 12 this year.

On this edition, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's Conference of the Parties (COP 20) intends to create a draft to set a list of commitments needed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

It is intended to be finally approved and signed by the Convention members during the next COP 21 to be held Paris in 2015.

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, and WWF’s International President, Yolanda Kakabadse attended the opening ceremony. It took place in the main auditorium of the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina.


Published: 11/28/2014