Federal
Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan arrives in Ordos, China
to attend Conference of Parties session 13 under United Nations Framework
Convention to Combat Desertification. The COP-13 started on 6th September and
will end on 16th September 2017. The Minister for Climate Change will attend
high level segments on 11th and 12th September 2017.
It
is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action
programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international
cooperation and partnership arrangements. The Convention, the only convention
stemming from a direct recommendation of the Rio Conference's Agenda 21, was
adopted in Paris, France on 17 June 1994 and entered into force in December 1996.
It is the only internationally legally binding framework set up to address the
problem of desertification.