MEDIA RELEASE: On the Pacific Journey to
#COP31
Nadi, Fiji: The COP31 Türkiye – Australia partnership that includes the Pacific is a first in the history of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Türkiye holds the COP31 Presidency, upon which Australia is the President of Negotiations and COP31 pre-COP will be hosted in the Pacific.
“The COP31 partnership modality is unique and unprecedented in the UNFCCC history, the world is watching closely how the Australia – Pacific partnership, together with Türkiye, reshape collaboration and partnerships going forward including catalysing urgent and ambitious global climate change actions, ” said the Deputy Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) at the opening of the fourth COP31 Pacific Senior Officials Taskforce (PSOT) meeting.
The Pacific is making the most of this opportunity with the COP31 Pacific Senior Officials Taskforce holding their fourth meeting in Nadi, Fiji.
This gathering is to discuss and strategise ways forward including through hosting of UNFCCC pre-COP in the Pacific and Australia’s role as COP31 President of Negotiations. Australia in partnership with the Pacific Islands will set the agenda and preside over the pre-COP.
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This is a joint media release by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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