The Secretary of State for the Environment, Federico Ramos, said today that Spain will work at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change being held in Peru (Lima) “to find common ground” and make progress in the fight against climate change.
This was announced by Ramos at a press conference at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment before the twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP20) that is being held until December 12 in Lima. The Spanish delegation will be led by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Isabel García Tejerina.
Federico Ramos explained that the Lima Summit is the main international meeting for all States before reaching the 2015 Paris Summit (COP21) and will be “key to closing the bases of the agreement” that is expected next year. In Paris, he recalled, a new international treaty must be agreed to establish the global framework for the fight against climate change from 2020.
In this sense, he indicated that this is where the importance of COP 20 in Lima lies, “since it is where Must decide issues such as the content and form that this new legally binding international treaty expected at the Paris summit should take.”
At COP 20 in Lima, It will be necessary to “also advance in the treatment of losses and damage Associated to the Impacts extremes of climate change in particularly vulnerable countries,” said the Secretary of State.
He explained that the European Union “goes to Lima with the peace of mind of having its homework done internally”, after the approval last October of the Energy and Climate Framework for 2030, in which the level of ambition of the objectives set is “very relevant”, since the Twenty-eight are committed to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 compared to the year 1990.
The delegation of the Government of Spain, led by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, will work in Lima to seek meeting points in all these aspects and, especially, in different forums with Ibero-American countries.
On a daily basis, they will hold meetings with NGOs, companies, parliamentarians and media travelling to Lima to inform them in a timely manner of the negotiation process and working meetings will also be held with Spanish companies based in Peru.
INFORMATION SPACE
Federico Ramos, together with the Director General of the Spanish Office for Climate Change, Susana Magro, today presented the new information space hosted on the Ministry’s website (www.magrama.es ), which will allow access to all the content on this international summit in real time.
It also offers a direct link to all the panels and plenary sessions that take place at the summit and, as a novelty, a section in which all the tweets published in real time appear with the hashtag #COP20. Likewise, the Ministry has created its own #EspañaenCOP20 label with which it will be possible to follow all the activity of the Spanish delegation.
