Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed has commenced work as Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) Ambassador for Ambition.
The Parliament Secretariat announced the speaker has commenced his work as CVF ambassador and met with Bangladesh Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) Presidency Special Envoy Abul Kalam Azad, officials from Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, CVF presidency and secretariat officials, and the Global Center on Adaptation.
At the inception meeting this week for the work of Speaker Nasheed as CVF Ambassador for Ambition, Special Envoy of the CVF Presidency Abul Kalam Azad highlighted how Nasheed founded the CVF in 2009 while he was president, and was responsible for commencing the journey of this forum. The special envoy added the CVF Chair and Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina looks forward to Speaker Nasheed’s forthcoming engagement as a CVF Thematic Ambassador.
It was agreed that the speaker’s forthcoming work in engaging world leaders, policy and public outreach, and actions with parliaments and other partners for the CVF, would specifically focus on promoting delivery of enhanced Paris Agreement national contributions, working with interested governments to draw up Climate Prosperity Plans that will deliver economic prosperity while also progressively eliminating carbon emissions, and proposing technology hubs to be located in CVF countries to deal with hard to de-carbonize parts of the economy and to accelerate climate adaptation.
Nasheed was chosen for his role due to his efforts to communicate the impacts of climate change on small island nations during his reign as President from 2008 to 2012. He also received global recognition for his efforts to reduce global carbon emissions in COP15. The former president was appointed as a Thematic Ambassador for the CVF in July.
The CVF is an international partnership of 48 developing nations most threatened by a global climate emergency. CVF aims to increase awareness, encourage adoption of sustainable policies and practice, and change all energy used by partners to renewable energy.
CVF appointed ambassadors in six different areas to further better aims of the partnership. Speaker Nasheed was appointed as Thematic Ambassador of CVF for the Thematic Domain of Ambition, for his climate advocacy efforts in the international world.