United States Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing will be in Marrakesh, Morocco, this week to participate in an informal preparatory meeting in advance of the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. “Next week’s pre-COP meeting offers an opportunity for Special Envoy Pershing and his Ministerial counterparts to finalize preparations for COP-22 and continue to discuss implementation of the Paris Agreement and ongoing actions to advance global climate and clean energy efforts,” a State Department release says.
COP22 will also serve as the first meeting of the CMA, the parties to the Paris Agreement on climate change. The agreement was adopted last year at COP21 in Paris and will enter into force on Nov. 4, just before COP22, which is scheduled for Nov. 7-18 in Marrakesh.
