Convention on violence and harassment & other topics - Daily Briefing (21 June 2019)

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Trip Announcement
- Climate Change
- Secretary-General in Geneva
- Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
- ECOSOC - Humanitarian
- Mali
- Appointment
- Security Council,
- Yemen
- Ethiopia
- Syria
- Cameroon
- Contributions
SECRETARY-GENERAL – TRIP ANNOUNCEMENT
The Secretary-General will depart New York on 26 June for a visit which will take him to Japan and the United Arab Emirates.
His first stop will be in Osaka in Japan, where he will attend the G20 Summit. He will speak at a session on climate change, environment and energy, and will participate in sessions on topics including the global economy, innovation and inequalities. He will also take part in a leaders’ side event on women’s empowerment.
While at the Summit, the Secretary-General will have a number of bilateral meetings with world leaders who are in attendance.
On Sunday, 30 June, the Secretary-General will arrive in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. There, he will attend the Climate Preparatory Meeting, which seeks to galvanize momentum and support for the solutions needed to tackle the climate emergency, ahead of the Climate Action Summit he is convening in September.
He will deliver opening remarks at the start of the meeting and participate in a leaders’ roundtable on raising ambition in advance of the September Summit.
The Secretary-General will also have bilateral meetings with senior United Arab Emirates Government officials and visit the Noor Abu Dhabi Solar Plant.
He will be back in New York on Monday, 1 July.

CLIMATE CHANGE
Also, on a climate related note, I was asked before the briefing for a reaction from the Secretary-General to the results of the European Union Council related to climate change that occurred yesterday, and I can say that the Secretary-General is of course disappointed by the lack of consensus on climate action within the European Council, but he is encouraged that 24 countries have committed to carbon neutrality by 2050.
He strongly hopes that this will soon drive the whole of the European Union, looking towards his Climate Action Summit in September and the review of the nationally determined contributions by 2020.
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