PUTRAJAYA – The Environment and Water Ministry has welcome the decision at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), which enabled the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Minister Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said the decision is important to support global efforts to ensure that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C is achieved.
“It is important for the country to implement these decisions immediately and the ministry will continue to work with all stakeholders inclusively and holistically to achieve Malaysia’s nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
“I delivered the national statement at the COP26 high-level session last Wednesday, which covered greenhouse gas emission reduction targets through NDC updates and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions aspiration as early as 2050,” he said in a press release today.
COP26 is a scheduled meeting held annually to ensure that the commitments and obligations of member states are implemented in accordance with the decisions that have been set.
To this end, the role of the conference is to set the direction to ensure climate change issues are negotiated, finalised, and implemented by all member countries.
Tuan Ibrahim led the Malaysian delegation to attend the COP26, which was held in Glasgow, Scotland from October 31 to November 12.
Among the key decisions agreed at the conference were modalities, guidelines and work programmes under Article 6 involving guidelines for carbon market mechanisms and non-market mechanisms; and the common time period for the implementation of the NDC under Article 4 that encourages NDCs to be submitted every five years with an implementation time period of 10 years.
In addition, the items that were also agreed on included the reporting format for the greenhouse gas inventory; monitoring of NDC performance; reporting of funds given and received; biennial transparency report reporting and capacity building under Article 13; launch of the implementation of a comprehensive work programme on the Global Goal on Adaptation in 2022 under Article 7; and long-term financing of climate change.
Malaysia also agreed to participate in the Methane Global Pledge and the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use. – Bernama, November 14, 2021
