Remarks on signing of the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) sustainable energy partnership mechanism by Robert B. Zoellick (Anglais)

These remarks were delivered by Robert B. Zoellick, President the World Bank Group, on December 8, 2010 at the COP16 in Cancun, Mexico. He talks about how Barbados and Mauritius played leadership roles in developing the Barbados Program of Action and ...  Voir la suite These remarks were delivered by Robert B. Zoellick, President the World Bank Group, on December 8, 2010 at the COP16 in Cancun, Mexico. He talks about how Barbados and Mauritius played leadership roles in developing the Barbados Program of Action and the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation. Antigua and Barbuda, along with Jamaica, are currently playing lead roles with the Ad hoc Working Group for the Kyoto Protocol and Clean Development Mechanism. Through IDA, which is the fund that we have for overall development for the 79 poorest countries and through a Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, we finance disaster risk management for coastal infrastructure in Samoa and Tonga, as well as capacity building in nine Pacific Island countries. AOSIS has been a leader, that if we're going to deal with climate change more generally, whether it's island states, mountain states, others, we've got to bring everybody to the coalition, and so we're very appreciative particularly of UNDP and Denmark in helping us get this catalytic piece forward.  Réduire