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Durban UN climate change talks to finalize institution building arrangements
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
The next UN climate change conference which will take place in Durban, South Africa, towards the end of the year, will focus on finalizing and adopting the institution-building arrangements launched in Cancun, Mexico, last December, as well as the methodologies to provide the rigour and transparency. Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said at a Conference of the Secretariat General Iberoamericana (SEGIB) in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday that the achievements in Cancun were undoubtedly a major step forward for governments, ’but at the same time, they are only a small step for the planet.’
The next UN climate change conference which will take place in Durban, South Africa, towards the end of the year, will focus on finalizing and adopting the institution-building arrangements launched in Cancun, Mexico, last December, as well as the methodologies to provide the rigour and transparency. Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said at a Conference of the Secretariat General Iberoamericana (SEGIB) in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday that the achievements in Cancun were undoubtedly a major step forward for governments, ’but at the same time, they are only a small step for the planet.’