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CLIMATE SUMMIT OPENS IN COPENHAGEN
Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/ Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is optimistic the climate summit will produce a signed and seal deal.
At the opening of the conference, along with Connie Hedegaard, conference president and Denmark's former climate minister, de Boer urged the global community to help vulnerable countries.
"Time is up, people are speaking out and we spent two years negotiating and now this process must deliver," said de Boer.
"Today, some 15,000 delegates from 192 nations gathered in Copenhagen for two weeks of negotiations on an agreement that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol and set new global carbon emission targets. At the heart of the deal must be a settlement between the wealthy countries and the developing world," the Executive Secretary said.
"We will need a list of ambitious reduction targets on the part of industrialized countries and we need to know what major developing countries will do to limit the growth of their emissions." Earlier this month de Boer reiterated that the financial cost remains the biggest issue for all nations at the summit climate change.
"There is a growing public awareness on the part of the international community. The balancing act that people are in, is trying to address the issue as seriously as they can without causing too much of an economic cost in taking that action."
De Boer said offers of finance for clean technology for poor countries were also coming through and that talks were progressing on a long-term vision of massive carbon cuts by 2050.
At the end of the conference, the Global Coalition for Climate Change took over the stage urging the panel to address the needs of islands on the Pacific Ocean affected by climate change.
The summit will continue through to Dec 18, with more than 100 world leaders including Mongolian President Ts. Elbegdorj, attending the last days of the summit.
S.Batbayar
At the opening of the conference, along with Connie Hedegaard, conference president and Denmark's former climate minister, de Boer urged the global community to help vulnerable countries.
"Time is up, people are speaking out and we spent two years negotiating and now this process must deliver," said de Boer.
"Today, some 15,000 delegates from 192 nations gathered in Copenhagen for two weeks of negotiations on an agreement that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol and set new global carbon emission targets. At the heart of the deal must be a settlement between the wealthy countries and the developing world," the Executive Secretary said.
"We will need a list of ambitious reduction targets on the part of industrialized countries and we need to know what major developing countries will do to limit the growth of their emissions." Earlier this month de Boer reiterated that the financial cost remains the biggest issue for all nations at the summit climate change.
"There is a growing public awareness on the part of the international community. The balancing act that people are in, is trying to address the issue as seriously as they can without causing too much of an economic cost in taking that action."
De Boer said offers of finance for clean technology for poor countries were also coming through and that talks were progressing on a long-term vision of massive carbon cuts by 2050.
At the end of the conference, the Global Coalition for Climate Change took over the stage urging the panel to address the needs of islands on the Pacific Ocean affected by climate change.
The summit will continue through to Dec 18, with more than 100 world leaders including Mongolian President Ts. Elbegdorj, attending the last days of the summit.
S.Batbayar
