Peru has successfully organized the UN world summit on climate change COP20, said US ambassador Brian A. Nichols when referring to his country’s great expectations regarding this international event starting on Monday.
“We expect this will be a very important step to cope and respond to climate change. Peru, as host, has prepared everything in an excellent way," the US diplomat told Andina news agency.
COP20 “will be a key event in the global agenda” aimed at outlining the actions that should be taken around the world to address the global warming issues.
The twentieth conference of the Parties (COP20) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held Dec 1-12 at the Army headquarters in Lima.
On Friday, Peruvian President Ollanta Humala handed over the venue of the Twentieth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP20-CMP10 to the organizing committee of the United Nations headed by Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Peruvian Minister of the Environment.
Mr. Humala said his government will do anything to ensure that, for 12 days, Peru will turn into the global center of debate, discussion, reflection and expression for all stakeholders seeking to solve the problem of global warming.
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Published: 11/29/2014