COP 23, Bonn 2017
The 23rd session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change is planned to be held this year between 6th and 17th November in the city Bonn, Germany. It will be hosted by the secretariat of the UNFCCC and presided over by Fiji in partnership with the German government.
This conference will provide a platform for nations and stakeholders to engage on ways to combat climate change and global warming and its causes. It will also push for implementation of the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
The conference being under the presidency of the Fijian government provides a great opportunity to island nations to raise awareness of their vulnerability to the effects of climate change and global warming for example rise in sea levels that endanger the existence of these small island nations through the threat of being submerged in the water and wild storms like Cyclone Winston of 2016.
Kenya has already ratified the Paris Agreement and the next move now is for the foreign affairs ministry to submit the ratification instruments to the UNFCCC secretariat. Once this is done, the country will then move to the implementation stage of this agreement. The country already has a Climate Change Act and National Adaptation Plan which will guide and support the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
This conference will provide a platform for nations and stakeholders to engage on ways to combat climate change and global warming and its causes. It will also push for implementation of the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
The conference being under the presidency of the Fijian government provides a great opportunity to island nations to raise awareness of their vulnerability to the effects of climate change and global warming for example rise in sea levels that endanger the existence of these small island nations through the threat of being submerged in the water and wild storms like Cyclone Winston of 2016.
Kenya has already ratified the Paris Agreement and the next move now is for the foreign affairs ministry to submit the ratification instruments to the UNFCCC secretariat. Once this is done, the country will then move to the implementation stage of this agreement. The country already has a Climate Change Act and National Adaptation Plan which will guide and support the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
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