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Manila,11 November 2015: Representatives from the 20-member Climate Vulnerable Forum together with 23 incoming members from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Pacific met at Manila and agreed to move unitedly to strengthen their collaboration and domestic climate action to trigger increased commitments from all countries and seize the COP21 opportunity for a climate-secure framework to keep warming below 1.5oC.
The call was articulated in the “The Manila Communique” released today by the 43 nations at the conclusion of a three-day meeting at Manila from 9-11 November.
The Manila Communique called for the Paris climate change agreement to enshrine the critical goal of below 1.5oC together with a successive 5-year commitment cycle to ensure further ambition progression and the enabling of upscaled mitigation action of all countries’ Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Following the Manila CVF meeting, the 1.5oC goal is now supported by 1o6 nations, in addition to hundreds of civil society groups, as emphasized by the CVF #1o5C campaign (www.1o5C.org).
The Communique highlights the endangerment of more than 1 billion people living in vulnerable countries represented in Manila and already suffering serious consequences even at just a global warming temperature of 0.85oC.
“Our vulnerable nations are the ground zero in the global struggle against climate change. Meeting here in Manila we shine a light on the grave dangers we face but also our achievements in addressing climate change and the benefits this is bringing us,” said Joyceline Goco, Acting Executive Director of the Climate Change Office who chaired the Manila CVF meeting together with Costa Rica and Bangladesh.
“We are encouraged by the Manila Communique that emphasizes the importance of national action while calling for greater global commitments to respond to the needs of most vulnerable countries. We remain committed to trigger actions that will accelerate progress towards the goal of staying below 1.5 degrees Celsius,” she added.
The Manila conference served as the Sherpa Senior Officers Meeting of the CVF concluding one and a half years of 5 regional meetings and global diplomatic and negotiator consultations in Geneva, New York and Bonn, and was the final preparation for a High-Level meeting of the Forum that will take place at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the UNFCCC at Paris.
The Manila Communique calls for an ambitious, universal, legally-binding, dynamic, and durable international agreement at COP21 conference expected to conclude the Paris accord and also decide on the strengthening of the long-term 2 degrees goal to 1.5 degrees.
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