Climate Action 2016-2017

"I welcome you to
Marrakech where the
world is waiting for all
of us to bring solutions,
innovations, and hope
for a better world."
COP22: TIME FOR ACTION
"Together, we will
demonstrate that
climate change can be
transformed from one of
mankind’s biggest perils
into one of humanity’s
most promising and
transforming challenges."
INCLUSION OF NON-STATE ACTORS
We need to maintain the momentum of
progress. We are deeply convinced of
the crucial importance of the inclusive
mobilisation of non-state actors. What we
call the Lima-Paris Action Agenda (LPAA)
should become Everyone’s Climate Action
Agenda – because we need to fill the gap in
emissions action between now and 2020.
Because we are innovators; and because we
are the driving force for a real and profound
transformation of society, as promised in the
SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
That’s why it is important to think about
the governance of the LPAA to guarantee its
sustainability, and to reinforce the bridges between
non-stakeholder actions, the goals of the Paris
Agreement, the NDCs and financing and policies.
A DECISIVE STEP
I want COP22 in Marrakech to go down
in history as a decisive step in the
implementation of everything we have
imagined, discussed, written for 21 years in
the fight against global warming. In 2030 the
middle classes will form two-thirds of the
world’s population, about 5.5 billion people.
This means that all over the world, especially
in developing countries, we have a critical
mass of educated citizens who could reach
level five of the Maslow pyramid.
It is up to us, here and now in COP22, to
implement the promise of future personal
achievement, for ourselves and for the
development of the human community.
Collectively, we mobilised to ratify the Paris
Agreement. We have added a level of credibility
by the amendment of the Montreal Protocol.
COP22 must be the COP of forging a new
partnership between state and non-state actors.
It is the COP of action, where we lay the
foundations of global coherent progress. It is
the COP where everyone becomes involved.
Let’s create hope in Marrakech; let’s build
confidence.
I will end by welcoming all of you to
Marrakech, where the world is waiting for all of
us to bring solutions, innovations, and hope for a
better world.
Bienvenus à Marrakech.
H.E. Dr. Hakima El Haité is the current Minister
Delegate in Charge of Environment of the Ministry
of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment of
Morocco and the high-level Climate Champion
of Morocco and COP22. Dr Haité is a member of
the executive board of the Popular Movement
(MP), Chairwoman of the International Relations
Committee, Vice–president of U.S–NAPEO (North
Africa Partnership for Economic Opportunity),
chairman of Connectingroup International and
deputy chairwoman of the Liberal International
for Women.
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