Meetings in Songdo – Discussions about environment cooperation

02/10/2017

Representatives of Hanns Seidel Foundation visited Songdo to meet with long-term partners of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) and the UN-Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). A visit to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) was an opportunity to establish first contacts and discuss the possibility of future cooperation.

UNESCAP and EAAFP are long-term partners for HSF and have contributed to the foundation’s efforts towards nature conservation and reforestation in North Korea on several occasions. Visits to both partners in Songdo showed that shared interests continue to serve as the basis of cooperation and mutual support in 2017 as much as in the past. HSF has recently become an official member of EAAFP. The membership was made official earlier this year at the Meeting of Partners in Singapore in January.

The visit to the Green Climate Fund in Songdo, however, was the first contact of what HSF hopes to be the foundation of future cooperation. Dr Seliger of HSF met with Mr Stefan Zutt of the GCF at the office in Songdo, Incheon. Ever since its establishment in 2010 by 194 countries under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), GCF is mobilizing funds to invest in low-emission and climate-resilient development around the world. Its mission is to expand collective human action to respond to climate change. During the meeting, mutual interest for a possible cooperation in the future was expressed.

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