PHOTO: Pres. Weah arrives in Paris
Paris, France – On a chain of international duties, the President of the Republic, Dr. George Manneh Weah has arrived in in Paris, France to attend the 5th Edition of the Paris Peace Forum.
He departed the Arab Republic of Egypt on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, an Executive Mansion press release says.
The President was earlier in Morocco and Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt where he attended the MEDays Forum and COP27 respectively, delivering Liberia’s position on critical world issues, mainly bordering on peace, pandemics and climate change.
He is now in Paris to attend the renowned Paris Peace Forum which serves as a platform upon which state and non-state actors engage in transnational cooperation for collective action.
With the far-reaching and combined effects of crises across the world on people and global cooperation, this year’s forum focuses on “Riding out the Multi-Crisis” with special emphasis on managing the fallout of the multi-crisis on populations, cooperating through conflicts, rethinking globalization in a polarized world and catalyzing climate and environmental solutions as well as ensuring a safer and ethical digital world and fostering more inclusive and just societies.
On the margins of the forum, President Weah is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.
The President is also expected to hold discussions with other world and business leaders.
The two-day Paris Peace Forum kicks off on November 11, 2022 and ends on November 12, 2022.
Pres. Weah Call COP To AttentionL: “Imbalance Between High, Low Emitters Still Remains High”
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – The President of the Republic, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah, has warned world leaders meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, that the inequity and imbalance between high and low emitters in the climate change architecture still remain high, and that the financial flows also remain disproportionate and unfair to emitting countries.
The President especially called attention to those significant carbon capture capability, and those countries that are expected to reserve their forest without commensurate benefit to the populations.
He however noted that there is still hope and confidence to mitigate and devastating effects of global climate change, something he stressed can only be achieved if the world acted together.
Pres. Weah addresses COP 27
Speaking on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh at the Conference of Parties 27th Edition dubbed COP27, Dr. Weah called on all parties to recommit, re-focus and live up to previous commitments made at COP26 to meet the target of 1.5 degrees Centigrade by 2030.
“We acknowledged our shortcomings in terms of inequity, and admitted our shortfalls in meeting our targets for reducing our carbon emissions and footprints,” the Liberian Leader reminded world leaders on commitments made at COP26 forum last year. “We also re-confirmed our commitments to contribute higher levels of financing to support our efforts,and reviewed and re-evaluated our chances of limiting the rise in global warming to meet our temperature target of 1.5 degrees Centigrade by 2030.”
Despite those commitments made, the Liberian Chief Executive further noted, there are still inequity and imbalance between high and low emitters in the climate change architecture, and that financial flows within still remain disproportionate and unfair to commensurate with benefits to the populations.
“As we assemble here once again to find a pragmatic and productive way forward, let us do so with renewed dedication, commitment, and sincerity, so that we harness our collective strengths to develop lasting solutions that will save our world, not only for ourselves, but for generations yet unborn,” President Weah challenging the Conference of Parties delegates said.
President Weah called on world leaders to stand by the decisions and commitments to be made at COP27 conference in Egypt to avert a global catastrophe noting, “, together can implement and make our one world a better place.