This was confirmed by the president himself during an interview Friday.
Toribiong said he will attend the conference together with National Environmental Planner Sebastian Marino.
“We will follow-up our request for funds to help us address the big problem of climate change,” he stressed.
Rich nations promised nearly $30 billion in aid during a three-year-period ending in 2012 to help poorer countries combat climate change.
Toribiong said the funds are needed by small island countries like Palau to address the problem of climate change.
According to the president, the issue needed immediate attention in the Pacific, where “it is a matter of life and death to some” of the smaller countries.
He noted that rising sea levels caused by climate change pose a threat to the very existence of some Pacific island nations.
Toribiong disclosed that he and Marino will depart for Cancun on Dec. 6 and will be back in the country on December 13.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference is an annual event where representatives of different countries around the world meet to discuss climate change and formulate solutions to the problem. The last conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009.
The conference this year in Mexico is officially referred to as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 6th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties (CMP 6) to the Kyoto Protocol.
More than 100 countries, including many in the Pacific Region, have sent delegations to the Cancun conference.
