As the host of COP 21 in December 2015, France has placed climate change among its foreign policy priorities.
“With the upcoming visit of President Hollande, we hope to be able to open new areas for cooperation, as well as to strengthen our existing partnership in various sectors, and among them is the environment,” the French envoy said.
The Embassy of France to the Philippines is committed to work together with the Philippines to address climate change through a series of projects to be carried out until December 2015, the first of which is a roundtable discussion organized by the Asia Centre in partnership with the French Regional Delegation for Cooperation with ASEAN (DREG) and supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines and the Embassies of the United Kingdom and of Germany. Taking place in Manila on November 17 with the theme “ASEAN, Europe and the Philippines: Facing up to the Challenges of Climate Change”,” the roundtable discussion will gather ASEAN officials, European representatives, political experts, scientists, and diplomats to exchange European and Asian perspectives and positions on the issue of climate change.
Complementing the roundtable discussion is a film screening of various films on the subject of climate change, to be followed by an open discussion on November 18 at the Alliance française de Manille. Among the short films to be screened are “Témoin du climat” by the Good Planet Foundation and Sally Jo Bellosillo’s “Haiyan: The Aftermath.”
