Afghanistan Position_Paper_COP29

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AFGHANISTAN’S URGENT CALL FOR CLIMATE ACTION AT COP29

PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT

This document serves as a position paper and policy brief to call upon COP29, the international community, and

then on all stakeholders to take urgent action on climate change given the current context of Afghanistan.

Through this position paper the Resilience, Environment and Humanitarian Aid (REHA) Organization, as an Afghan

environmental NGO and as part of the Afghan civil society together with its partners as members of CANSA-Afghanistan

and other organizations to call on world leaders gathered at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November 2024 for

urgent climate action for Afghanistan. This document includes the following information and action points to indicate

the current context of Afghanistan including an overview and introduction to the climate vulnerability, membership

in UNFCCC, representation in previous COPs, exclusion from COPs in the last three years, and its urgent call for

action and depoliticization of climate change in case of Afghanistan.

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