Bonn - The choice of Morocco to host the 22nd Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Marrakech (COP22) is a recognition by the international community of Morocco's actions to fight climate change, said, on Monday, chairman of the COP22 steering committee and foreign minister Salaheddine Mezouar.
The choice of Morocco as a host country for the COP22 is not random, it is a recognition by the international community of Morocco's actions to fight climate change, said Mezouar at the opening of the Bonn Conference marking the 44th session of UNFCCC's subsidiary bodies SBSTA and SBI, and the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement.
This commitment was made at the State's highest level to ensure that the COP22 takes place in the best conditions, he said, recalling the launch ceremony of the Call of Tangiers "for a solidarity-based, strong action for climate", which was chaired by HM King Mohammed VI and French president François Hollande.
This initiative mirrors the two countries' resolve to join efforts to help the international community find appropriate answers to the issue of climate change, said Mezouar, stressing that Morocco's organization of COP22 is in fact an extension of a continuous commitment made by the Kingdom during its organization of COP7 in 2001 in Marrakech.
He added that COP22 is meant for the adoption of procedures and mechanisms to activate the Paris Agreement, and of a pre-2020 action plan for mitigation, adaptation, financing, capacity-building, transfer of technology and transparency especially for poor countries.
The COP22 will also be an occasion to to agree on a concrete road map to raise 100 billion dollars by the year 2020, he said, noting that Morocco will honor its pledge, in collaboration with France, to get more parties to adhere and ratify the Paris Agreement ahead of the COP22.
He also proposed that parties and public and private financial institutions create a "Fast Track Finance Facility".
With MAP
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