President Jacob Zuma arrived in the French capital Paris on Sunday ahead of the Twenty First Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention.
The conference will run from the end of November through to mid-December.
Having launched the negotiations that will conclude this year at COP 17 in Durban in 2011‚ South Africa has a special interest in doing all that it can to ensure the success of the Paris COP.
Zuma said that for South Africa‚ a fair and ambitious legally binding agreement would mark the successful conclusion of the mandate agreed to by consensus in Durban to enhance implementation of the existing Convention.
Zuma will also officiate at the Leaders Meeting in Paris in his Capacity as President of COP17/CMP7 and Author and Custodian of the Historic Durban Platform.
“As the current Chair of the Group of 77 and China and an active member of the Africa Group of Negotiators (AGN) and Brazil‚ South Africa‚ India and China (BASIC) Group‚ South Africa also has the special responsibility of advancing the collective and shared interests of developing countries in the negotiations for the Paris Agreement.
“This necessitates defending the legal rights of developing countries under the Convention and to receive the support they require to make the transition to a low carbon economy and to adapt to the reality of a climate that is already changing and the loss and damage that is associated with this‚” said Presidency spokesperson Bongani Majola.
Zuma‚ who is being accompanied by Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa‚ will attend the Heads of State and Government segment on November 30.
Zuma arrives in Paris for climate change conference
President Jacob Zuma arrived in the French capital Paris on Sunday ahead of the Twenty First Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention.
The conference will run from the end of November through to mid-December.
Having launched the negotiations that will conclude this year at COP 17 in Durban in 2011‚ South Africa has a special interest in doing all that it can to ensure the success of the Paris COP.
Zuma said that for South Africa‚ a fair and ambitious legally binding agreement would mark the successful conclusion of the mandate agreed to by consensus in Durban to enhance implementation of the existing Convention.
Zuma will also officiate at the Leaders Meeting in Paris in his Capacity as President of COP17/CMP7 and Author and Custodian of the Historic Durban Platform.
“As the current Chair of the Group of 77 and China and an active member of the Africa Group of Negotiators (AGN) and Brazil‚ South Africa‚ India and China (BASIC) Group‚ South Africa also has the special responsibility of advancing the collective and shared interests of developing countries in the negotiations for the Paris Agreement.
“This necessitates defending the legal rights of developing countries under the Convention and to receive the support they require to make the transition to a low carbon economy and to adapt to the reality of a climate that is already changing and the loss and damage that is associated with this‚” said Presidency spokesperson Bongani Majola.
Zuma‚ who is being accompanied by Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa‚ will attend the Heads of State and Government segment on November 30.
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