Marrakech Action Proclamation

• The Heads of State, Government, and Delegations, gathered in Marrakech for the High-Level Segment of the 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 12th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, and the 1st Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, have adopted the Marrakech Action Proclamation for Climate and Sustainable Development.

Highlights of proclamation:

• Our climate is warming at an alarming and unprecedented rate and there is an urgent need to respond. So, there is welcome of the Paris Agreement, adopted under the Convention, its rapid entry into force, with its ambitious goals, its inclusive nature and its reflection of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances, and we affirm our commitment to its full implementation.
• The momentum on climate change worldwide was irreversible, being driven not only by governments, but by science, business and global action of all types at all levels. The Proclamation stressed on nations having to rapidly build on the post-Paris momentum, and move forward purposefully to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to foster adaptation efforts, thereby benefiting and supporting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that was adopted at the UN headquarters in New York last year.
• This Proclamation called for the highest political commitment to combat climate change, as a matter of urgent priority.
• Countries also demanded solidarity with those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, highlighting the need to support efforts aimed to enhance their adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability.
• The countries also called for an increase in the volume, flow and access to finance for climate projects, alongside improved capacity and technology, including from the developed to the developing countries.
• Developed Country Parties, reaffirm their USD $100 billion mobilisation goal and unanimously, call for further climate action and support, well in advance of 2020, taking into account the specific needs and special circumstances of developing countries, the least developed countries and those particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.
• The nations, who are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (which does not include the U.S.) also encouraged the speedy ratification of the Doha Amendment with its focus on pre-2020 action.
• Given the gaps in emissions reduction to stay on course for keeping global warming levels under 2 degree C, nations also called for urgently raising ambition and strengthening cooperation amongst countries to close the gap between current emissions trajectories and the pathway needed to meet the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

By: Vishal