Unit­ed Na­tions (UN)Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Ban Ki-moon said T&T is a re­gion­al leader in im­ple­ment­ing the UN Post 2015 De­vel­op­men­tal Agen­da, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter on Ju­ly 2.

The new post-2015 de­vel­op­ment agen­da builds on the Mil­len­ni­um De­vel­op­ment Goals which are eight an­ti-pover­ty tar­gets that the world com­mit­ted to achiev­ing by 2015.

The Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al con­grat­u­lat­ed the coun­try­on hav­ing sur­passed sev­er­al de­vel­op­men­tal goals.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar held bi­lat­er­al dis­cus­sions with Ban Ki-moon on the sec­ond day ofthe 36th meet­ing of the Cari­com­Heads of Gov­ern­ment con­fer­ence in Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos, themed"Vi­brant So­ci­eties, Re­silient Economies: A Part­ner­ship for Im­ple­men­ta­tion".

He al­soasked for a cen­tral lo­ca­tion to house all UN of­fices in T&T, a re­quest sup­port­ed by Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

The PM and Ban Ki-Moon al­so spoke about cli­mate is­sues, with the UN Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al high­light­ing the im­por­tance of the Green Cli­mate Fund.

The fi­nan­cial tar­get of the fund is $100 bil­lion of which ten per cent has been achieved thus far, the re­lease said.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar asked Ban Ki-Moon to con­sid­er whether some of this fund could be aligned to the Caribbean En­er­gy Fund, which is be­ing led by T&T for Caribbean sus­tain­abil­i­ty and clean­er en­er­gy.

She al­so spoke on the Green Econ­o­my ini­tia­tive of the Min­istry of Plan­ning and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment.

The aim of this ini­tia­tive is to fo­cus on im­proved hu­man and so­cial well be­ing while sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duc­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal risks and eco­log­i­cal scarci­ties.

The PM al­so made men­tion of T&T's thrust to utilise CNG for pub­lic sec­tor ve­hi­cles.

These strate­gies, she said, are part of the bridge be­tween the present heavy re­liance on the en­er­gy sec­tor and the di­ver­si­fied, sus­tain­ably de­vel­oped, ro­bust econ­o­my of the fu­ture.