Bangladesh seeks COP-21 to reach a legally binding agreement

Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain Manju on Sunday said Bangladesh expects the upcoming climate conference (CoP-21) in France to reach a legally binding agreement as a senior French climate official called on him at his office.
An official familiar with the meeting said Manju told the visiting French envoy that being a worst possible victim of climate change, Bangladesh wants the Conferences of the Parties (CoP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to reach an effective deal which would make the high emitting nations legally obligated to reduce the carbon emission to prevent climate change impacts.
Paris is set to host and preside over the CoP 21 from November 30 December 11, 2015, when for the first time in over 20 years of UN's climate negotiations aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with a goal of keeping global warming below 2oC, a BSS report said.
"I hope a Legal Binding Agreement would sign during the 2015 Conference of Parties (COP) in France, with a view to keep the increase of world temperature limited below 2 degree Celsius," Maju said during talks with Diplomatic Adviser to the French government and Ambassador at Large for Climate, Philippe Zeller at his Bangladesh Secretariat office.
French Ambassador in Dhaka Sophie Aubert accompanied the visiting envoy.
Zeller sought Bangladesh's all-out cooperation for the legal binding agreement and accelerated but sustainable development with low carbon emission.
The adviser said enriching the Climate Change Resilience Fund will get priority in the COP-21.
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