STOCKHOLM, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Participants at the P4G Copenhagen Summit have endorsed the Copenhagen Commitment on Saturday, to accelerate positive action on combating climate change and to speed up delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), said a statement from Danish Foreign Ministry on Saturday.
"To achieve targets set by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and to reach the SDGs, a new alliance of global leaders have declared their support and signed the Copenhagen Commitment in recognition that the world needs concrete partnerships to get the job done," read the statement.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen welcomed the signing of the Copenhagen Commitment as a way to accelerate action, partnerships and solutions.
"Let's roll up your sleeves, and get to work. Keep fighting. It underlines that in P4G -- we are in it for the long run," the statement quoted Rasmussen as saying.
The P4G Summit was attended by governments, global companies, entrepreneurs, academics, and civil society from 53 countries and regions and marks an important first step in working to build and scale public-private partnerships and showcase what strong partnerships can do.
P4G -- Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 -- is a global initiative with the ambition of becoming the world's leading forum for developing concrete public-private partnerships at scale to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.
