UN Ambassadors from Morocco and France Urge Climate Action Amid Pandemic

During this meeting, Ambassador Hilale stressed the need to focus on the climate issue. According to him, states must develop more ambitious national contributions (NDCs) and define long-term climate strategies this year. Regarding Morocco, "we are continuing our national efforts to build back better and more sustainably," the diplomat assured. For him, it is not a question of "losing sight of the fact that developing countries are facing the worst climate impacts, particularly on the African continent."

For his part, Laurent Fabius, President of COP-21 in Paris, indicated that the health crisis related to the coronavirus is an issue that deserves governments to focus on it as much as climate change. "There will be no vaccine against global warming, so we must refuse to separate the necessary action against the pandemic from the essential and necessary action against global warming," he hammered.

Speaking up, various COP presidents raised two major concerns: the importance of international financing and green recovery with the involvement of the public and private sectors in the context of sustainable projects, and the promotion of an economic and social agenda to accelerate decarbonization by focusing recovery investment on high social impact areas.