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December 09, 2011
Durban, South Africa – The Republic of the Marshall Islands has repeatedly called on nations of the world to deliver agreement on a second five-year commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, a process to rapidly ramp up mitigation ambition, and a mandate to quickly conclude a new parallel legal agreement in 2012 to cover those not bound by the KyotoProtocol. The RMI has also expressed its deep disappointment by the lack of apparent ambition within the international climate change negotiations to protect small islands developing states and other particularly vulnerable countries, their peoples, culture, land and ecosystems from the impacts of climate change as well as from the slow pace of these negotiations.
The Minister in Assistance to the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Honorable Ruben R. Zackhras, is currently in Durban, South Africa for the 17th Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC. In his statement before the plenary session of the UNFCCC, Minister Zackhras associated the Republic of the Marshall Islands with the statements made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Grenada on behalf of the Alliance of Small Islands States, the Honorable Karl Hood, and His Excellency Spent Dabwido, President of Nauru, on behalf of the Small Islands Developing States, and said, “the RMI will not accept outcomes at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP17 that propose to delay any new binding agreement or more ambitious emissions reductions until 2020, as these cannot safeguard the livelihoods and guarantee the survival of our nations”.
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