Rabat - Egyptian Minister of Environment Dr. Khaled Fahmy traveled to Morocco yesterday for preliminary meetings with the Moroccan government. He and his delegation of minsters will help prepare for the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22), which Morocco will be hosting this November. They will meet for two days in Marrakech to discuss the upcoming summit.
Rabat – Egyptian Minister of Environment Dr. Khaled Fahmy traveled to Morocco yesterday for preliminary meetings with the Moroccan government. He and his delegation of minsters will help prepare for the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22), which Morocco will be hosting this November. They will meet for two days in Marrakech to discuss the upcoming summit.
Fahmy will also deliver a speech to the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Environment according to his position as president of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment.
In June, he had met with Hakima al-Haite, president of COP22, to discuss another Paris meeting that will check other nations’ progress in implementing previous COP agreements.
When the COP22 actually takes places, delegations will determine how to implement COP21 standards, as well as future commitments. The COP21’s regulations were ambitious and unprecedented, and in combination with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, the world faces many restrictions on pollutants. Climate Change is, of course, the primary driver of these new measures.
According to COP21, nations must restrict greenhouse gas emissions so as to limit global temperature increase to under 2 oC by the year 2100. Ideally, these new measures would allow for a temperature increase of only 1.5 oC by 2100, with international progress reviewed every five years. This is an attempt to further mitigate the damaging effects of what is now expected to be a 2.7 to 3 oC increase, which is feared to adversely affect environmental patterns and a diverse array of industries. Fortunately, COP21 sees this current trajectory as a decrease from its “worst-case scenario” of 4.5 to 6 oC increase by 2100.
Until 2020, each year is expected to yield $100bn from the international community to subsidize developing countries’ efforts to shift to renewable energy sources. After this time, future commitments will replace past ones. The COP22 may provide clarity on these future commitments, as Marrakech take center-stage on international discourse about Climate Change.
