The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Dr Edna Molewa, will on Tuesday, 3 October 2017, deliver the keynote address at a stakeholder consultation in preparation for the 23rd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held in Bonn, Germany from 06 to 17 November 2017. In December 2015, Parties to the UNFCCC adopted a universal legally binding Agreement in Paris, which represents a turning point in global climate governance and strengthens rules-based multilateralism, as it is the first time that a comprehensive and universal agreement has been adopted under the UNFCCC.South Africa signed the Paris Agreement on 22 April 2016.
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