New York – From tomorrow to Friday, the Minister of Environment Gian Luca Galletti will be in New York for the signing ceremony of the agreement on climate reached in Paris last December. The agreement will be signed by the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The signature of the historic global agreement to fight global warming is scheduled for Friday morning, at the General Assembly Hall of the UN. The event will be preceded by a series of bilateral meetings with some of his counterparts in terms of environmental, energy, and sustainable development policies. On Thursday the Minister will meet with Hakima El Haite, Minister of the Environment of Morocco, the country that will host the Cop22. After the encounter Galletti will meet also the Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Salwai Charlot, the Minister of Environment and Energy of Maldives Thoriq Ibrahim, the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources of Solomon Islands John Maneniaru and the Peruvian Minister of Environment, Manuel Pulgar Vidal. Immediately after the signature of the Paris agreement, instead, it is scheduled a meeting with the ministers of Lesotho Tlohang Sekhamane (Foreign Affairs) and Selibe Mochoboroane (Energy). On Thursday, at 19, Galletti will also take part to the presentation of the book “The American Pope” by Paolo Messa. at the Italian Academy of the Columbia University,. (9Colonne)
