United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted the Climate Summit to engage leaders and advance climate action and ambition. The Summit will serve as a public platform for leaders at the highest level – UN Member States, as well as finance, business, civil society and local leaders from public and private sectors. The Summit’s aim is to catalyze ambitious action on the ground to reduce emissions, strengthen climate resilience and mobilize political will for an ambitious global agreement by 2015. The new climate agreement must limit the world to a less than 2-degree Celsius rise in global temperature.
The UN Climate Summit was be about action and solutions focused on accelerating progress in areas that can significantly contribute to reducing emissions and strengthening resilience – such as agriculture, cities, energy, financing, forests, pollutants, resilience and transportation.
The Summit is not part of the UNFCCC negotiating process. By promoting climate action, it aimed to show that leaders across sectors and at all levels are taking action, thus expanding the reach of what is possible today, in 2015, and beyond.
Visit UN Climate Summit 2014 website
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View September 21, 2014 People's Climate March press release
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