Climate Summit Will Produce 'Robust' Accord, UN Chief Ban Says
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations Secretary-General BanKi-moon predicted the Copenhagen summit on climate change willproduce an agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions thatwill be effective immediately.
“I expect a robust agreement at the Copenhagen summit thatwill be effective immediately and include specificrecommendations on mitigation, adaptation, financing andtechnology,” Ban told reporters today at the UN in New York.
Representatives of about 190 nations, including 105presidents and prime ministers, began to gather in the Danishcapital yesterday to set a framework for a treaty to curbemissions blamed for global warming. Talks have been slowed bydifferences between industrialized nations and developingcountries over emissions-reduction targets and how muchfinancial help rich nations should provide to poor ones.
“We have come a long way in just two years’ time,” Bansaid. “Never have so many different nations of all sizes andeconomic status made so many firm pledges together. Now is thetime for action. We must sprint across the finish line.”
Ban, who has made a new treaty to combat climate change amajor goal of his first five-year term in office, said leakedBritish e-mails suggesting a conspiracy to manipulate findingsabout climate change wouldn’t slow movement toward an accord.
He said there was “no doubt about the basic scientificmessage that climate change is happening much faster than werealized and we human beings are the primary cause.”
To contact the reporter on this story:Bill Varner at the United Nations at wvarner@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: December 8, 2009 11:22 ESTSource: Bloomberg
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