Together with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister Stoltenberg succeeds former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The UN climate group shall mobilise the resources promised at the Copenhagen Climate Summit last December. The group, representing both developing and developed countries, will draw up practical proposals for the financing of emission cuts and adaptation strategies. The means will come from the private as well as the public sector.
- To secure sufficient financing of climate actions in developing countries will be decisive in order to reach a new international climate treaty. I look forward to leading the group together with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, says Stoltenberg.
Prime Minister Stoltenberg and Prime Minister Zenawi chaired their first meeting in New York 12-13. of July. The group discussed possible alternatives to persue the financial goals agreed on in Copenhagen 2009.
According to the Copenhagen Agreement reached at the end of the December summit, developed countries will raise up to 30 billion US dollar for the period 2010-2012 and a total of 100 billion dollar annually from 2020. The agreement also stated that countries will work to limit the temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, and implement efforts to reduce or limit the emission of greenhouse gases.
The UN climate group will present its final report before the next UN climate summit, in Mexico in December this year.