Friday, December 14, 2007

United Nations Climate Change Conference comes to the final
by Dana Kotorova


United Nations Climate Change Conference took place in Indonesian Island Bali for last two weeks. Today is the final day of this conference. Representatives of over 180 countries were talking about climate changes and mainly about how to avoid them. The representatives are trying to make an agreement about emission reduction from 25 percent to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The United States of America, Canada and Japan are arguing, that this reduction is in the contrariety to the conclusions of Kyoto conference. Kyoto Protocol aimed to reduce global warming. This protocol expires in 2012. On the issue of emission reduction ranges, the U.N. climate chief, Yvo de Boer said: "What's becoming clear to me is the more robust industrialized countries are willing to be in terms of the effort they are working towards, the stronger the reaction you're likely to get from developing countries." Indonesia's Environment Minister, Rachmat Witoelar, the conference president finally told, that the emission should be reduce at least by half 2050. "It is something that governments earlier this year said they should be guided by in the context of the negotiations. So this range does not represent concrete emission reduction targets for industrialized countries and this conference will not produce an agreement on concrete emission targets," said de Boer.
by Dana Kotorova
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