Eugene Eteris
The UN Climate Change Conference kicked off on Monday, 7 December, with a strong sense of confidence that countries can seal a comprehensive, ambitious and effective international climate change deal in Demark and with an unprecedented sense of urgency to act on climate change. And important initiative followed…
The two-week meeting, the fifteenth Conference of the 193 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fifth meeting of the 189 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, is the culmination of a process set in motion in Bali, where Parties to the UNFCCC agreed to conclude negotiations on a new global deal in Denmark in 2009 (see our report from COP-15, 6 December 2009 in the BC).
According to speakers at the opening ceremony, the highly anticipated conference marks an historic turning point on how the world confronts climate change, an issue with profound implications for the health and prosperity of all people. Danish Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced that 110 heads of state and government would attend the closing part of the conference and in making its final concluding document.
The Danish PM acknowledged that the climate changes transcend state borders: these changes do not discriminate, they affects us all, he said. “And we are here today because we are all committed to take action. That is our common point of departure – the magnitude of the challenge before us is to translate this political will into a strong political approach,” he concluded.
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