October 2014
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PERUVIAN DELEGATION IN NEW YORK Ollanta Humala, President of Peru, lead the national mission that participated on the United Nations Climate Summit in New York, organized by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Read more
LOGISTICS & ORGANIZATION
CIVIL SOCIETY
UNFCCC checks progress in venue readiness for COP20
Private sector committed confront Climate Change
Climate Change specialists from United Nations met in Lima to check the logistics and progress of the COP20. Minister of the Environment and COP 20 Chair Manuel Pulgar-Vidal and Peru’s Foreign Minister, Gonzalo Gutiérrez, joined the visitors
Calidda, strategic ally of the civil “Play your part”, represented companies during a private a entrepreneurs meeting hosted by General Ban Ki-Moon.
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NEGOCIATIONS
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campaign Peruvian high-level Secretary
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Informal meetings with main negotiators of the Durban Platform were held in Lima Aiming at having an additional space for negotiations, the Government of Peru conducted an Informal Dialogue on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) with representatives of almost 40 countries, from October 1 to 3 in Lima.
Academic dialogue about society and environment in NYU The COP20 team and New York University (NYU) organized a meeting where Minister of the Environment and COP 20 Chair Manuel Pulgar-Vidal had the chance to exchange ideas on climate negotiations with international environmental law experts.
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SUPPORT BETWEEN NATIONS
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European Union donates Peru 18 million soles for COP20 organization
“For Paris to be successful, we need Lima to be successful”
Peruvian government received this significant contribution that the Minister Pulgar-Vidal described as “exemplary” on the challenge to combat Climate Change.
The European Union (EU) Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard, talked about the huge importance of the COP20 meeting as a base to reach future goals.
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CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE FOR ACTION
Learn what we do at #CK4A The COP20|CMP10 Knowledge Management Division seeks to contribute to international and domestic public debate by providing information and making available existing knowledge on climate change in simple formats that will reach a wide range of audiences and provide them with key information for decision making. Read more
The role of cities in reducing climate change impacts Gerardo Ardila, Bogota Secretary of Planning, was interviews about the important role cities will play in reducing and adapting to climate change impacts.
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COP AGENDA
(October)
COP20 IN THE MEDIA
06 17 Biological diversity Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea.
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala was interviewed in New York on the occasion of the Climate Summit about his agenda, Latin America, COP20 and other topics.
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10 12 International Monetary Fund (IMF)
GLOBAL POST
Minister of the Environment and COP 20 Chair Manuel Pulgar-Vidal will chair the high-level session of climate finances on the IMF annual meeting in Washington, USA.
Interview to the Minister of the Environment and COP 20 Chair Manuel Pulgar-Vidal about being the chair next United Nations climate mega-conference and other topics.
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19 World Resources Forum Peru has been selected to be the host of the World Resources Forum (WRF) wich will be held in Arequipa from the 19th to the 22nd.
DIARIO CORREO Interview to the Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Director, School of Global Sustainability University of South Florida during his visit to Lima Climate Finance Week.
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OTHER NEWS Peruvian government was present people’s Climate March in NYC Minister of the Environment and COP20 Chair Manuel Pulgar-Vidal participated in the People´s Climate March along with authorities, personalities and more than 400,000 citizens in New York. Read more
Mountains and Water: Central themes of V #ComuniCOP Conference organized by COP20’s Mountains and Water Team, altogether with Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), and the Peruvian Association for Environmental Law (Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental - SPDA). Read more
Reserve your stand to challenge the climate change The COP20 organization is already receiving the applications for the stands that will form “Voces por el Clima” (Voices for the climate). More information here. Read more
What is your commitment to fight Climate Change? During NY Climate Summit, the COP20 team ask New Yorkers about how they would contribute on this task to save our planet. The answers were different and creative. Read more
LIFE IS BETTER ON A BICICLE The forum “City, Bicycles and Climate Change” promoted alternative for transportation and displayed the cases of cities such as Bogotá, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Read more MORE NEWS
