Draft resolution on carbon certification

Abstract

The Conference of Ministers, Noting with concern, as reported in the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that Africa remains the most vulnerable region to climate shocks while being the least responsible for the inexorable increase of global temperatures. The Conference of Ministers, Underlining the critical importance of the continent’s natural heritage and its incalculable contribution towards the sequestration of harmful greenhouse gases, and in particular such regions as the Congo basin, which play an essential role in regulating the Earth’s climate and Recognizing the needs expressed by African Governments and other parties at the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, specifically with regard to the negotiations held in article 6, paragraph 2, of the Paris Agreement, in which Governments are encouraged to establish environmental integrity and carbon market integrity by, among other things, ensuring that all carbon use is transparent and verifiable, and applying comparable accounting systems and supporting development plans.