APA-Rabat (Morocco) The Moroccan Minister, Nasser Bourita, on Tuesday, received in Rabat, the Congolese Minister of Environment, Sustainable Development and the Congo Basin, Arlette Soudan-Nonault, coordinator of the Climate Commission of the Congo Basin, bearing a written message to King Mohammed VI from President Denis Sassou Nguesso.
In a statement to the press after her meeting with Mr. Bourita, the Congolese official said that his visit to Morocco is part of the preparation of the summit of the three global forest basins scheduled for next October in Brazzaville.
She has, in this sense, highly praised the commitment of King Mohammed VI in favour of biodiversity and climate, particularly in the African continental region, recalling that the sovereign was behind the initiative to create the three climate commissions on the occasion of the African Action Summit, held on November 16, 2016 in Marrakech on the sidelines of the COP22.
The king is the “great sponsor of the three climate commissions in the African continental region,” she said, noting that the sovereign has been supporting the Congo Basin climate commission step by step since
its creation.
She also stressed that Morocco is “a great partner” in the framework of the climate commission alongside the 15 countries of the Congo Basin which represent 10 percent of global biodiversity.
“We need this coalition led by His Majesty the King to enable us to speak with one voice in the context of South-South cooperation without forgetting to involve the countries of the North,” she insisted, noting that the climate emergency requires the mobilisation of funding for integrative and sovereign projects that meet the aspirations of the region’s populations.
The Congolese minister said in this regard that the Brazzaville summit of the three basins of the African biodiversity world will help “register in the dynamics of the Paris Agreement.”
The Brazzaville meeting will also focus on the Amazon basin, Borneo-Mekong in Southeast Asia, which represents 80 percent of global biodiversity, she said.
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