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Climate Change: There is a disconnect between words and proposed concrete action

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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

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United Nations, New York, 12 October 2009 - While much-needed progress had been made during the just-concluded ten-day negotiating session in Bangkok towards an agreement at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Director of the Secretary-Generals Climate Change Support Team today said there was still a disconnect between what national leaders said in summit meetings and what their negotiators offered. 

Janos Pasztor told correspondents at Headquarters that at the Secretary-General's 22 September Summit on Climate Change in New York, 101 Heads of State and 163 Government officials had signalled their desire to achieve an agreed outcome at the Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December.  In the negotiations leading up to Copenhagen, progress had been made in key areas such as adaptation, technology, capacity-building and reducing emissions from deforestation, and developing countries were moving forward in a spirit of pragmatic cooperation.  

Yet little progress had been made on core political issues such as midterm emission reduction targets for industrialized countries, Mr. Pasztor said, and clarity was till lacking on the issue of finances that developing countries would need in order to undertake additional actions in emission growth and adaptation.

Press release: 
http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2009/091012_Pasztor.doc.htm

UN Climate Change website:
http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/climatechange/gateway

UNFCCC website:
http://unfccc.int/2860.php

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