Kufuor back home from France, UK

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor arrived back home Sunday night after addressing meetings in Paris, France, and London, the United Kingdom.

In Paris, Former President Kufuor addressed a forum by the Progressives for Climate Change, which is a network of European civil society organizations engaged in climate change.

The meeting, opened by French President Laurent Fabius, was also addressed by Karl Offmann, Former President of Mauritius and Ricardo Lagos, Former President of Chile, among others.

It drew up a five point-agenda for consideration at next December’s climate change summit, also to be held in Paris, where legally binding agreements on the impact of climate change will be made by governments from all over the world.

Among its conclusions were that the December conference: should make provision for a systematic and transparent review of mitigation ambition of nations which will ensure that nation’s keep to their pledge of maintaining gas emissions to below the Two Degree Celsius mark.

It also called for a price to be set on greenhouse gas emissions by companies that pollute the air and for concrete steps to be taking in activating the $100 billion fund for developing countries for adhering to greenhouse efficient measures.

Former President Kufuor also addressed an investors forum of the Meridiam International, a financial investment consortium where he called for greater public-private-participation in the fight against climate change.

In London, the former President held talks with the new Chief Executive Officer of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition Professor Sandy Thomas, on ways of streamlining the work of the panel.

The Former President serves on the board of both the Meridum Group and the Global Panel.