On April 19, the Ambassador Bakhtiyar Gulyamov signed the Paris Agreement on climate change at the United Nations in New York.
The Paris Agreement was adopted on 12 December 2015 at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC CoP21) held in Paris from 30 November to 13 December 2015. The Agreement was adopted after four years of intense negotiations that was mandated by the 17th UNFCCC CoP held in Durban in 2011.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan to U.S., Bakhtiyar Gulyamov signed the Agreement on behalf of the Republic of Uzbekistan
The Paris Agreement is universally regarded as a seminal point in the development of the international climate change regime under the UNFCCC.The Agreement is a comprehensive framework which will guide international efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions and to meet all the associated challenges posed by climate change. It signals the change in pace towards the low carbon development from 2020 onwards through commitments of countries in ambitious national plans called Nationally Determined Contributions.
The Paris Agreement is also an important tool in mobilising finance, technological support and capacity building for developing countries, and will also help to scale up global efforts to address and minimise loss and damage from climate change and increase climate resilience.
