Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2016-04-06

Signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

- The signing ceremony of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change is due to be held in the United Nations Head Quarters in New York on 22nd April 2016. In addition to it, the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem and the High Level Thematic Debate on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals would also be conducted on or about the same dates. Therefore, the proposal made by Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, H.E. the President, in his capacity as the Minister of Mahaweli Development and Environment, to authorize Hon. Susil Premajayantha, the Minister of Science, Technology and Research to represent Sri Lanka and sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and to take part in the other programmes, conducted simultaneously, was approved by the Cabinet.