Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-22
By: CNA
An international conference of non-governmental organizations on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Taipei Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced.
The 2015 UNFCCC NGOs Forum focused on issues such as gender, indigenous people, public health and matters related to climate change, according to the ministry’s statement.
The one-day meeting was co-organized by MOFA and the Environmental Protection Administration under Taiwan’s Executive Yuan.
The conference was to be attended by local academics, experts and NGO representatives, as well as their counterparts from the United Kingdom, the United States, Sweden, the Philippines, and New Zealand, MOFA said. [FULL STORY]