48. 在海外领土部长级联合理事会第六次会议通过的公报中，联合王国和各海外领土政府认识到，飓风“艾尔玛”和“玛丽亚”造成的破坏提醒人们海外领土面对气候变化相关事件时十分脆弱，这些事件对海外领土居民的生活和生计可能造成破坏性影响。他们承诺继续采取在气候变化国际论坛之前相互接触的做法，确保各海外领土的观点和优先事项充分体现在谈判中。会议商定，海外领土的代表将作为联合王国代表团成员出席定于 2018 年 12 月 3 日至 14 日在波兰卡托维兹举行的联合国气候变化框架公约缔约方大会第二十四届会议，强调指出他们出席会议具有重要意义，有助于强化一个各方均认同的讯息，即对气候变化相关目标需要保持勃勃雄心。联合王国再次承诺，将与各海外领土就将气候变化条约的适用范围扩大到海外领土问题进行合作，包括与有兴趣参加定于 2018 年上半年举行的《巴黎协定》会议的领土进行初步磋商，推动将《京都议定书多哈修正案》的批准延伸至已表示有此意愿的领土。会议强调，各领土在气候变化适应和减缓领域的工作非常重要，领土之间有必要开展协作，通过各领土环境部长年度会议等途径，分享有关环境管理和气候变化问题的最佳做法。
48. In the communiqué adopted at the sixth meeting of the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council, the Governments of the United Kingdom and the overseas territories recognized that the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria had served as a reminder of the vulnerability of the overseas territories to climate change-related events and the devastating effect that they could have on the lives and livelihoods of those who lived there. They committed themselves to continuing the practice of mutual engagement ahead of international forums on climate change to ensure that the views and priorities of the overseas territories were fully reflected in negotiations. It was agreed that a representative from the territories would attend the twenty-fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Katowice, Poland, from 3 to 14 December 2018, as part of the delegation of the United Kingdom, highlighting the value of their presence in helping to amplify the shared message of the need for a high degree of ambition on climate change-related targets. The United Kingdom reiterated its commitment to working with the overseas territories on the issue of extending the application of treaties concerning climate change to the territories, including taking forward the work to extend its ratification of the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol to those territories that had indicated their readiness for it, through initial consultation with territories that had an interest in participating in meetings concerning the Paris Agreement to be held in the first half of 2018. The importance of work in the territories on climate change adaptation and mitigation and collaboration between the territories to share best practices on environmental management and climate change issues, including through the annual meetings of ministers of the environment of the territories, was emphasized.