Copenhagen: Ban Ki-moon wants to raise the bar

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Copenhagen: Ban Ki-moon wants to raise the bar




by recyclinage » 02/11/09, 09:51

The UN secretary general wants a "binding" agreement at the Copenhagen climate summit. "We must not reduce our ambitions" he declares.

Ban Ki-moon stressed importance of international climate conference to open on December 7 in Copenhagen

Ban Ki-moon stressed importance of international climate conference to open on December 7 in Copenhagen
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set the bar high and insisted on a comprehensive "binding" agreement at the Copenhagen climate summit in December, in an interview published Sunday, November 1 in a Greek daily.
"We are going to do everything possible to arrive at an effective (...) and binding treaty; we do not want to postpone it", Ban Ki-moon told the daily Kathimerini, three days before his official visit to Greece, on the 4 and November 5.

"We must set the bar high"

"If, for whatever reason, this proves impossible, there will be a political agreement which will lead us to new negotiations after the Copenhagen summit. But we must set the bar high and not reduce our ambitions", he added.
On Wednesday, the executive secretary of the United Nations Climate Convention, Yvo de Boer, indicated that it would be "physically impossible" to finalize all the details of a treaty in Copenhagen but that the summit will have to make it possible to reach an agreement "on the essentials" and "finalize the details in 2010".
Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen also admitted that he did not believe in the adoption of a legally binding global agreement.
The international community must seal a new climate change agreement in Copenhagen in December, which will come into force in 2013 after the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol.

(Nouvelobs.com)


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