Copenhagen Meet On Climate Change
According to Danish Prime Minister Cars Laekke Rosmussen as on 28th November 2009, eighty-seven world leaders had confirmed their participation in UN conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in December where they will try to clinch a new global climate deal. Denmark had formally invited the heads of state and government of 191 UN member states to come for the final two days of the December 7-18 conference to push for a deal at the meeting, originally meant for environment minister.
India’s attendance at Copenhagen is on the basis of a political consensus which rules out any constraints on economic growth while advocating the implementation of the principle agreed upon in the UN Framework for Cooperation against Climate Change (UNFCC) and the Bali action plan. According to these agreements, developing countries are not legally bound to curb their greenhouse emission while developed countries are expected to provide them resources and technology to reduce emissions.
Many developing nations want the rich to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Mainly from burning fossil fuels, by at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 as a condition for action by the poor to start curbing their rising pollution, so far, promises by the rich fall far short, at cuts of about 11 to 15 per cent. And developed nations have yet to meet promises of extra aid to developing countries.
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