Timmy Dooley
Ceist:522. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the meetings, both planned and unplanned, that he attended on a trip to New York in September 2019. [41725/19]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 15 October 2019
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The UN Climate Action Summit, which took place on 23 September, was convened by the UN Secretary General to build momentum towards enhanced climate ambition by Parties to the Paris Agreement. This was preceded on Saturday, 21 September, by a Youth Climate Summit which was attended by myself and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.
I attended a number of side events and meetings related to the Climate Action Summit, as follows:
- Welcome meeting with Irish Youth Delegates to the UN Climate Action Summit
- Spiritual Moment Pre-Youth Summit with representatives of the Indigenous Youth
- In the context of the Youth Climate Summit on 21 September:
- opening of the Youth Climate Summit with the UN Secretary General
- signing of the ‘Kwon Gesh’ (‘Solemn Duty’) climate pledge, sponsored by Ireland and the Marshall Islands, and inviting signatories to give the younger generation a greater voice in creating climate policy
- intergenerational Town Hall involving youth leaders engaging with world leaders
- Intergenerational Dinner with youth delegates, involving the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, former President Mary Robinson, and Ministerial representatives from the Marshall Islands, Nigeria and Namibia
- Side event on scaling-up of nature-based solutions for climate mitigation
- Meeting with fellow Climate Summit track leads and the UN Secretary General;
- Climate and Environment Ministerial reception at the UK Residence hosted by COP26 President-Designate Claire Perry MP
- Pacific Island Forum Reception “Our Blue Pacific, Our Future”
- In the context of the Climate Action Summit on 23 September:
- opening ceremony
- intergenerational dialogue hosted by the UN Secretary General
- Ireland's National Statement to the Summit, delivered by the Taoiseach
In addition to the above, I had the opportunity, on the margins of the Summit, to meet with a number of my counterparts, in particular those Ministers from the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing State, to discuss how to better address the challenge of climate change in the places where its impacts are felt the strongest.