2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference The 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference was an international meeting of political leaders and activists to discuss environmental issues. It was held in Marrakech, Morocco, on 7-18 November 2016. The conference incorporated the twenty-second Conference of the Parties (COP22), the twelfth meeting of the parties for the Kyoto Protocol (CMP12), and the first meeting of the parties for the Paris Agreement (CMA1). The purpose of the conference was to discuss and implement plans about combatting climate change and to "[demonstrate] to the world that the implementation of the Paris Agreement is underway". Participants
Taking action to combat climate change and its impacts in Myanmar to travel miles for water where lakes have not dried posing considerable livelihood challenges. On April 22nd, 2016 Myanmar signed into the United Nation's Paris Agreement reinforcing its interest to help combat climate change internationally. During September of 2015, Myanmar submitted its new climate action plan to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change well ahead of the December 2015 conference. Although only 0.01 of all greenhouse emissions are from Myanmar, the ratifying of the agreement allowed for financial and technological aid for capacity building from international organizations to fight climate change. In 2017, the Ministry of Natural Resources and