{"id":6373,"date":"2015-06-30T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=6373"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:08:57","slug":"ban-welcomes-new-post-2020-climate-targets-submitted-by-china-and-republic-of-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2015\/06\/ban-welcomes-new-post-2020-climate-targets-submitted-by-china-and-republic-of-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban welcomes new post-2020 climate targets submitted by China and Republic of Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/\">Secretary-General<\/a> Ban Ki-moon welcomed today&#8217;s formal submission of post-2020 climate change targets or Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) by both the China and the Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/statements\/index.asp?nid=8784\">statement<\/a> issued by his spokesperson in New York, Mr. Ban welcomed the countries&#8217; compliance, saying \u201cboth submissions represent an important contribution to building momentum and strengthening prospects for reaching a new and meaningful climate change agreement at COP-21 (the UN Climate Change Conference) in Paris at the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted, \u201cThe INDCs submitted today and since March offer a floor, and not a ceiling for ambition, and are critical for building momentum and trust on the road to COP-21 in Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary-General thanked the President of China, Xi Jinping, and the President of the Republic of Korea, Park Geun-hye, for their leadership and strong commitment in addressing climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ban also encouraged other countries to accelerate the preparation and submission of their INDCS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA key step to reaching a universal and meaningful climate agreement in Paris is the timely submission of INDCs by all countries well in advance of Paris,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=51311#.VZQR1vlViko\">via UN News Centre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed today&#8217;s formal submission of post-2020 climate change targets or Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) by both the China and the Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,30],"tags":[646,144,673,655,481,670,652,661,667,649,541,658,430,664],"class_list":["post-6373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-news","category-secretary-general","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-cop-21","tag-intended-nationally-determined-contributions","tag-paris","tag-park-geun-hye","tag-post-2020-climate-change-target","tag-president-of-china","tag-president-of-the-republic-of-korea","tag-republic-of-korea","tag-secretary-general-ban-ki-moon","tag-un-climate-change-conference","tag-united-nations","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}