Ulaanbaatar
Government delegation attends Climate Action Summit
Politics
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. Mongolian government delegation attended ‘Climate Summit’ held on September 23 within the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York city, the USA.
UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres convened the summit to mobilize political
and economic energy at the highest levels to advance climate action that will
enable implementation of many of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development.
Themed ‘Climate
Action Summit 2019: A Race
We Can Win. A Race We Must Win’, the summit
aimed to seek to challenge states, regions, cities, companies, investors
and citizens to step up action in the areas of energy transition, climate
finance and carbon pricing, industry transition, nature-based solutions, cities
and local action, and resilience.
At the summit, Mongolian
government delegation reported about increasing Mongolia’s national
contribution to the implementation of Paris Agreement on the climate change. During
the event, Mongolia joined an initiative ‘Addressing Climate Change Impacts on
Cultural and Natural Heritages’ that aims to mitigate negative impacts of
climate change on the world cultural and natural heritages. As a member state
that joined Strategic Partnerships for the Implementation of the Paris
Agreement, Mongolian delegation attended an opening of the initiative.
The
Summit was preceded by a series of pre-Summit events including a ‘Youth Climate
Summit’ held on September 21. At the Youth Climate Summit, Mongolia’s high
school student B.Enerel, best participant of the Green Passport campaign being
run at the initiative of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism of Mongolia, reported
about the Green Passport Campaign as national experience.
