Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation, Dr. Samura Kamara is currently in New York to
represent the country in a series of international engagements and the Climate
Change Conference at the United Nations.
The minister, who arrived on Monday, is slated to take part today
in a High-level Forum on “The Africa We Want in 2030, 2063 and Beyond: Early
Action and Results on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in the
context of the First Ten-Year Implementation Plan of Africa’s Transformative
Agenda 2063: Opportunities and Challenges” (co-organized by the Permanent
Mission of Sweden, the African Union and the Office of the Special Adviser on
Africa (OSAA) .
The minister will also
take part in a round table and panel discussion on the Sustainable
Development Goals ( SDGs ) on the topic : “Financing for sustainable
development: follow-up to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third
International Conference on Financing for Development .”
Dr. Samura Kamara will also represent Sierra Leone at the
all-important Climate Change Conference on Friday.
The purpose of the conference will be the deposition and signing
of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change .
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change will be deposited at the UN
in New York and opened for signature for one year on Friday April 22, 2016
through 21 April, 2017.
It must be recalled that in December 2015, during the Paris
Conference , dubbed COP 21, a first-ever universal, legally binding global
climate deal was adopted by 195 countries . The aim of the agreement, which
will enter into force in 2020, was to set out a global action plan to put the
world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to
well below 2°C.
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