Resolution number: 04
Title: COP 21

Adopted by the 60th Congress of Liberal International

The Congress of Liberal International, convened in Mexico City, DF, Mexico, on 31 October 2015

Recalling:

• The 59th LI Congress resolution on “Securing a new climate regime” in Rotterdam, 2014, and;
• The report “Better growth, better climate” (The New Climate Economy) that was well received and granted recognition at COP 20 in Lima, Peru as well as at the UN Headquarters in New York, U.S.A.

Notes that:

• The 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is scheduled to take place in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015;
• This will be a crucial conference, as it needs to achieve a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming within 2^°C above pre-industrial levels;
• the IPCC reports on the Climate Change indicate that 300 million Africans do not have access to drinking water and calculate that women and young girls in Africa spend 1.400 million hours a day fetching water and that 600 million do not have access to clean energy sources and use peat and fire wood to heat themselves (an imminent health risk).
• Because the effects of climate change affect all countries but befall the developing and vulnerable countries the most due to inadequate resources to adapt to the changes, the agreement needs to equally address mitigation and adaptation, taking different countries needs and capacities into consideration;
• Around $90 trillion will need to be invested globally in infrastructure over the next 15 years in cities, land use, and energy in order to reach the 2^°C goal.

Calls on:

• Political leaders to put pressure on national governments to play a leading political and diplomatic role as part of the negotiating effort to secure agreement on a fair, effective and legally binding new global climate treaty at the conference, including commitments by all countries to reduce emissions, with the richer countries taking the lead, supported by a well-financed Green Climate Fund to assist poorer countries to tackle and adapt to climate change;
• Integration of Gender Component in COP 21
• Creation of a fund dedicated to strengthening women’s resilience to Climate Change, whose financial resources are part of through the Green Climate Fund or other innovative climate finance mechanisms.
• All parties to put pressure on national governments to cooperate with one another to reach a globally binding agreement enabling resilient low-carbon economies and societies.