Today at the UNFCCC COP19 had the news about the polish Presidency of the COP19 Climate Summit remains unchanged. By taking a decision on change on the post of minister of environment of Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the same time reassured the position as the President of COP19.

The other discussion was the NGOs like Greenpeace, Oxfam left the conference. This initiative basically drew the attention of the member states. Because they were not only NGOs, were also the G77 and China that threatened before and are some delegates who are on hunger strike. Today China pronounces that “we understand why NGOs left the conference and we show our complete solidarity towards them”. Today for example there was a demonstration of empathy for some member states. This demonstrates the urgency of taking concrete action on mitigation and adaptation.

At the plenary room with the Ministers Mr. Pithaya Pookaman from Thailand talked about cooperation. During the afternoon the plenary room the ministers talked about harmony between development and environment. The climate change is on the conscious in the declarations. The Mr. Dion Taufitu, Associate Minister from the Meteorological Service (NIUE) talked about efficiently communication and implementation related with climate change.

The Joint High-level Segment was one opportunity to listen some many experiences of impacts of climate change, Bangladesh talked about loss and damage and the importance of choice. In Portugal with Jose Moreira da Silva, Minister of Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy from Portugal said about the importance to advance in the development of the next steps for Paris. Overall Portugal is leading on renewable energy, will soon lead on energy efficiency and green fiscal reforms and will set more ambitious mitigation targets.

The summary results of the Climate Change Performance Index 2014 made by the Observing, Analyzing, Acting (Germanwatch), indicated the global ranking of the Portugal it is in 6 position; Brazil 36 and Poland 45.

The pronunciation of Timor-Leste, emissions very low, however we have high vulnerability and we are experiencing several extreme weather events. Parties need to reaffirm commitments on mitigation of emissions and take decisions to support capacity and adaptation measures▄