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World's top polluters meet at UH to discuss cleaning up act
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Jan 31, 2008 08:04pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Honolulu Advertiser |
| News Date | Friday, February 1, 2008 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Representatives of the world's major emitters of greenhouse gases began two days of meetings yesterday at the East-West Center to discuss reducing emissions linked to global warming.
About 150 people representing 16 countries, the United Nations and the European Union are attending the "Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change," the second in a series of talks initiated last year by President Bush. Officials said the meetings are to advance United Nations climate change negotiations.
"To face the climate change challenge, there is a need for radical changes in the world economic future, but this clearly involves changes that imply plenty of opportunities," said de Boer. "It's important to bear in mind that the most vulnerable communities in the poorest countries, those who have contributed nothing to climate change, will be the worst affected by its impact."
The major economies meeting follows a United Nations-sponsored conference in Bali, which resulted in a "road map" for a two-year negotiating process to create a formal climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012. The Kyoto Protocol requires industrial nations to make cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Bush has complained that the Kyoto Protocol, which the United States has not signed, would unduly damage the U.S. economy and that it did not include developing nations like China and India. |
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