Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
At the 2020 Climate Ambition Summit, President Juan Orlando Hernández called for the weekend before the nations of the world to access the Green Climate Funds and invited to know the reality facing Honduras after the devastating passage of hurricanes Eta i Iota.
“This is the right scenario to ask for the right thing to be done. During him he has been president of my country, in all my interventions we have requested the same and we have not been heard. The Green Climate Funds do not arrive as they should and this can only be done with their intervention and good will “, the president explained in his speech virtually to the participants in the cluster.
“You can create an emergency window with funds available, in a more simplified way of acquisition, without so much bureaucracy and immediately accessible to countries like ours that are constantly suffering the effects of climate change,” he said. Honduran ruler.
The United Nations, the United Kingdom and France, in partnership with Chile and Italy, convened the 2020 Climate Ambition Summit, which would bring together leaders from different fields willing to make new commitments to tackle climate change and comply with the Paris, five years after its adoption on December 12, 2015.
At this 2020 meeting, countries will establish new and ambitious commitments under the three pillars of the Paris Agreement, which are mitigation, adaptation and financing.
“We will never be able to develop as a nation if every 20 years we have to rebuild roads, bridges, stairs, streets … It is not fair for a family to lose their job for a lifetime due to the rains. It’s not fair for a producer of the best coffee in the world to lose his harvest because he can’t get it out, because there is no access to the streets, “he said.