World leaders meet in New Delhi to discuss climate change

New Delhi, February 7, 2008. - World leaders gathered today in the framework of the Summit on Sustainable Development in New Delhi, where rich and poor countries stressed the need to reach a broad global consensus on climate change.
The conference was attended by five heads of state and government and ministers, hence it has been called the first major event since the UN Conference on Climate Change held in Bali (Indonesia), which was achieved a final agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
"Climate change is a major concern and India will be at the forefront of the fight," he said at the opening of the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, for whom global warming is a "collective human crisis" that must be answered "strengthening solidarity."
After intervention by Singh, took the floor the principals of Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark and the Maldives, who asked to focus on what can be done "here and now" to alleviate the effects of climate change.
Nordic cooperation and stressed the need to reach agreement and to lead by example with measures such as recycling or the use of clean technologies.
"The moral issue is not between rich and poor countries, but between the current and future generation," said Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.
But his appeal fell on deaf ears, and soon the discussion focused on how to distribute responsibility on climate change between rich and poor, although with a substantive agreement on the urgency to act to mitigate its effects.
"We have long said the Maldivian President, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, especially in the Maldives. The rising sea will be catastrophic for us, so that the international community must take steps to mitigate the effects of climate change, rather than adapt to it. "
Representatives of poor countries called for a "change in the habits of the rich countries", while representatives of developed countries, including the Spanish Environment Minister Cristina Narbona encouraged all States to undertake "according to their possibilities. "
"Spain is an important role in the field of renewable energy Narbonne said attendees. Installed wind power are the third country in the world, and sixth in the field of solar energy. "
Narbonne, who arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday, participated along with representatives from France, Bhutan, Ghana, Pakistan, India and Laos at a meeting served to discuss the sacrifices that each country should take in combating climate change.
The conference will last three days and is organized by the Energy and Resources Institute, headed by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, who also heads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN.
The meeting aims to discuss the dangers of polluting emissions, rising sea levels and climate change effects, which have emerged this year in Ghana and floods in the Himalayas, where glaciers are melting.
"Climate change is happening because the world does not follow a sustainable development. We need a global policy, "Pachauri said at the inauguration.

Share

Thematic area:

1. Bangladesh faces climate change with doubts about its survival
2. Porn thrives in the underground heart of New Delhi
3. "Clean Ganges Mission," the new India plan to save their sacred river
4. Sonia Gandhi calls for protecting the poor effects of financial crisis
5. Appreciation of the rupee against the dollar, new headache for government