Dec 8, 2015 - governments, international organizations, bi and multilateral donors, ... PROJECT PREPARATION AND INNOVATI
***MEDIA ADVISORY*** COP21 Lima-Paris Action Agenda Focus on Cities and Subnationals on Climate Action 8 December 2015 from 10:15 to 13:30 CET – Observer Room 12 – Hall 4 Press briefing from 9:15 to 10:00 AM CET - Press Conference Room 1- Hall 2
A Five Year Vision aligning local actions to catalyze collective ambitions
CITIES AND REGIONS ACROSS THE WORLD UNITE TO LAUNCH “FIVE YEAR VISION” TO TAKE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE Cities, regions, national states, public and private investors, transformative initiative holders, international organization to accelerate the transformation at local and regional scales Subnational authorities is the largest group on NAZCA commitments platform Paris, 8 December 2015 – Gathering all the stakeholders of local climate action - local, subnational and national governments, international organizations, bi and multilateral donors, investors - this Cities & Sub-nationals LPAA Focus will showcase the unprecedented level of sub-nationals commitment for climate as well as the structural challenges that must be addressed to accelerate the transformation of our economic developments at the local scale. Particularly highlighted at the Lyon Summit in July 2015, local authorities involvement within the climate Action Agenda is increasing fast and gradually reaching all continents: 2,255 cities and 150 regions are already registered on the NAZCA climate commitments platform, representing 17% of the world population (1.25 billion inhabitants), and the mobilization goes beyond to reach more than 6.000 entities. Four priorities will form the pattern of the Focus which will highlight the necessity of stimulating further mobilization of local leaders, focusing not only on ambition but also on resilience planning. This event will launch a “FIVE-Year Vision” that should align local actions and commitments around collective ambitions by 2020, thereby making rapid urbanization and regional dynamics an opportunity for massive change with environmental, health and economic benefits.
Speakers will be: Ban Ki-moon, United nations Secretary General Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California and R20 founding Chair Xie Zhenhua, Special representative for climate change, China* Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, Mayor of Libreville, Gabon CITIES AND REGIONS' LEADERSHIP IN CLIMATE ACTION - Patrick Klugman, Vice-Mayor of Paris, France - Damien Gampiné, President, special municipal delegation of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - Maria Ruiz Mejia, Minister of environment of Jalisco, Mexico - Marcelo Mena, vice-Minister of environment, Chile, co-president of CCAC initiative RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, A PRIORITY FOR ACTION - Mohammad Sayeed Khokon, Mayor of Dhaka South City Cooperation - Michael Berkowitz, President, Rockefeller Foundation - Jay Weatherill, Premier of South Australia, Australia
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Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat
PROMOTING CLIMATE PLANNING, PROJECT PREPARATION AND INNOVATIVE FINANCIAL TOOLS - Anne Paugam, Director General, Agence Française de Développement - Maros Sefcovic, Vice-President, European Commission - Mpho Parks Tau, Mayor of Johannesburg, South-Africa - Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior director, World Bank - Kathleen Wynne, Prime Minister of Ontario, Canada - Philippe Couillard, Prime minister of Québec, Canada - Greg Selinger, Prime Minister of Manitoba, Canada TAKING JOINT ACTION - Cheik Hadjibou Soumare, President, Commission of the UEMOA (West African Economic and Union) - François Amichia, President, UEMOA subnational governments Council - Tamayo Marukawa, Minister of Environment, Japan - Janos Pastor, assistant Secretary General on Climate Change, UNSG - Johanna Rolland, Mayor of Nantes - Ségolène Royal, Minister of environment, France - Hakima El Haité, Minister of environment, Morocco
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LOGISTICS What:
COP21 Lima-Paris Action Agenda Focus on Cities and Subnationals Climate Action http://newsroom.unfccc.int/lpaa/cop-21/
When:
8 December 2015 Focus Event from 10:15 AM to 13:30 PM, Observer Room 12, Hall 4, Blue Zone Press Briefing from 9:15 to 10:00 AM, Press Conference Room 1, Hall 2, Blue Zone
Contact:
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[email protected] LPAA Press Officer Diane Gaillard, +33 6 99 62 49 79,
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ABOUT THE LPAA The Lima-Paris Action Agenda is a joint undertaking of the Peruvian and French COP presidencies, the Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the UNFCCC Secretariat. It aims to strengthen climate action throughout 2015, in Paris in December and well beyond through: mobilizing robust global action towards low carbon and resilient societies; providing enhanced support to existing initiatives, such as those launched during the NY SG Climate summit in September 2014; and mobilizing new partners and providing a platform for the visibility of their actions, commitments and results in the run up to COP21.Learn more at http://newsroom.unfccc.int/lpaa/about/
BACKGROUND
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Local and regional scales concentrate both a high proportion of the challenges related to climate change, but also the solutions to cope with them and create catalytic, innovative, and people-centred spaces of action. Driving forces for their countries’ economic development, cities and regions generates a large share of global GDP, with important impacts: according to the IPCC, urban areas are, for instance, responsible for 37% to 49% of global GHG emissions. They are also at the forefront of combating the effects of climate change.
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Staying under the 2°C pathway requires therefore a deep transformation of our local economic development models. Moreover as the world faces the greatest wave of urbanization in its history with 60% of the global population to live in urban areas by 2030 and 70% by 2050. But this rapid urbanisation is also an opportunity to catch in developing resilient and low-carbon societies at large scale, avoiding lock-in effects. In addition, mainstreaming climate change objectives into a wide variety of local and regional policies has co-benefits, as it helps solve other existing development challenges.
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