Since 26 November, Doha (Qatar) has been hosting the United Nations Climate Change Summit under the slogan “Count on Me”, a new international event that aims to analyse the evolution of countries in the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This is the first summit held in the Middle East. Around 17,000 from 195 countries participate in it, in order to evaluate and establish emission reduction strategies for 2020. The aim has been to focus attention on those countries that are suffering the greatest increase in temperature and that, at the same time, are among the least developed states. Countries such as Kenya, Gambia or Mozambique, where they suffer from droughts and floods that prevent the development of agricultural activities.

On the other hand, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) wanted to highlight the importance of the need to expand the dissemination and implementation of existing climate change adaptation measures, so that they are established at the global level while protecting the economic and social development of countries.

This meeting, which will close on December 7, puts an end to the first stage established in the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.