Sierra Leone ‘s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Samura Kamara, will be in New York to represent Sierra Leone at this week’s Climate Change Conference at the UN .
Heads of states, representatives of government, foreign ministers and members of civil society will attend the week-long Climate Change Conference at the UN .
The purpose of the conference will be the deposition and signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change .
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change will be deposited at the UN in New York and opened for signature for one year on Friday April 22, 2016 through 21 April, 2017.
It must be recalled that in December 2015, during the Paris Conference , dubbed COP 21, a first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal was adopted by 195 countries . The aim of the agreement, which will enter into force in 2020, was to set out a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C.
We will bring you more details of the Foreign Minister’s full agenda in New York.