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Lauchenoirian Guardian

Prime Minister announces climate conference to be hosted in August
22nd June 2020

Prime Minister Josephine Alvarez today addressed parliament to announce that Lauchenoiria will host a climate conference in August 2020. Delegations from all other IDU nations will be invited to attend the conference, which will last for two weeks. The conference will discuss a number of topics related to climate change, with the view to agreeing international measures to tackle the problem.

This comes after worldwide climate protests which took place simultaneously in a number of IDU nations on Saturday, led by Lauchenoirian climate activist group the Watchdogs of Our Earth (WOE). The holding of a climate conference was one of the five key demands of the activists behind the demonstrations, and today the social media pages of various climate activist organisations have been celebrating this victory – while also warning governments that their work is not done.

Representatives of Climate Alliance Lauchenoiria were in the viewing gallery during Alvarez’s speech, and one of the attendees spoke to the Lauchenoirian Guardian afterwards, saying: “we are glad that the first of our demands has been listened to, and that the government is taking the climate crisis seriously. But we cannot now sit down and say that we’ve solved the problem; we must continue to put pressure on the government to act quickly and strongly, and on the conference itself to agree meaningful solutions.”

Members of CAL were outside the Federal Parliament celebrating the announcement of the conference, but in the last few days there has been a dispute between members of CAL on the subject of emissions targets. The WOE-led protests on Saturday called on governments to reach net-zero emissions by 2025, but less radical elements of CAL are saying this is too soon and “over-ambitious”.

All other IDU nations will be invited to attend the conference by the Lauchenoirian government including – controversially – both Xiomeran governments. As Lauchenoiria is officially neutral with respect to the conflict brewing in Xiomera, the government has decided to favour neither government. If either party chooses to attend it is expected that security at the conference will need to be incredibly high.