Senegal offers to host the next African COP in 2016

Warsaw, Poland- 20 November 2013- The Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Senegal, H.E. Mr. Mor Ngom (in the middle), today 20 November 2013, addressed African Group of Negotiators (AGN) to ensure effective participation of the COPs at different levels. In addition, the minister informed the AGN Group that Senegal has offered to host the next African COP in 2016, which is the 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 12th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP22/CMP12).

Worth noting, that Sudan has been elected as the In-coming Chair of the African Group of Negotiators at the UNFCCC COP and to commence his 2-year tenure from 1st January 2014 till 31st December 2016. Since 2012 Mr. Emmanuel Dlamini of Swaziland was leading the negotiations at the UNFCCC COP18 in Doha and COP19 in Warsaw, on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN).

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