E.Bat-Uul participates in Mayors’ Meeting within COP

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2015-12-09 14:43:24

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city E.Bat-Uul has taken part in the Mayors’ High-Level Meeting, which was held within the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties running in Paris of France.

At this Meeting were leaders of some 600 cities to discuss ways of solving problems facing urban areas’ sustainable development caused by global warming, to seek effective methods of ensuring safe and healthy environment for people, and to work out concrete plans for supporting green development, saving energy, proper usage of natural resources and reducing air and soil pollutions. The gathered shared experiences in these issues and expressed a united willingness to collaborate. In addition, leaders of the biggest cities promised to minimize emission of poisonous gas and pollution by 70% by 2050.

Having been invited by the Mayor of Paris, Mr Bat-Uul also attended as a panelist the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance Report on "State of City Climate Finance", chaired by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He highlighted his views on forming health and safe environment in cities of developing countries, on backing green development and its financing, on augmenting the energy saving by introducing pure energy, and on investing in the environmentally-friendly infrastructure.    

 

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