News Digest Item
23 Mar 2017

“G20 should take lead in implementing Paris Agreement”

B20 / T20 / C20

Representatives of the G20 dialogue forums business (B20), civil society organisations (C20) and think tanks (T20) have together called on the Group of Twenty member countries to take the lead in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. They demand a “drive towards effective and globally converging carbon pricing mechanisms”, a phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, and enabling “financial markets to deliver on sustainable development”.

Read the statement in English here.

For background read the CLEW article Germany keeps pushing for G20 climate focus.

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