UN official on clime change to visit Bhutan

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Christiana Figueres is scheduled to make three-day visit to Bhutan from Thursday (1 May).

During the visit, she will call on Prime Minster Tshering Tobgay, Foreign Minister Rinjin Dorji and other senior government officials.

She is expected to discuss ways to build fruitful partnership in the context of climate change and to further strengthen the progress in responding to the challenges posed by the climate change.

This is the first visit by the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC to Bhutan.

The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty that sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle the challenge posed by climate change. Bhutan has been a Party to the UNFCCC since 1995.

As a State Party, Bhutan is able to draw attention to and raise awareness of Bhutan’s vulnerabilities and challenges from climate change and benefit from funds available to least developed and vulnerable states for climate change mitigation and adaptation activities.