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UN: Developed countries need to cut gas emissions by 25-40 per cent
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 05 - 11 - 2009


UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on
developed countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40 per
cent in an address to the Greek parliament today, according to dpa.
With just over a month remaining before a key UN climate change
conference in Copenhagen, Ban urged leading nations to unite on
accord that is "comprehensive, equitable, balanced and binding" at
the December 7-18 talks.
Climate change negotiations are currently underway in Barcelona,
Spain ahead of the Copenhagen conference.
At an international conference on immigration in Athens on
Wednesday, Ban said a deal is also needed at the Copenhagen
conference in order to curb environmental refugees.
"We are in a critical period...populations will relocate due to
more extreme weather including prolonged droughts, intensive storms
and wildfires," Ban said, citing the rising migration numbers in
Africa due to desertification and in Asia because of flooding.
Ban said the threat is already evident in poor countries such as
Bangladesh where floods have temporarily displaced millions, and in
Africa where expanding desertification is prompting more people to
leave rural areas.
"We need action and agreement in Copenhagen. We will continue to
push for the most ambitious agreement possible," he said.
World governments are scheduled to meet in the Danish capital to
agree on a new protocol before the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
The EU"s 27 member countries last week reached a compromise on how
much money to offer developing countries to fight climate change, a
key stumbling block for a global treaty.
The European Commission predicts that rich nations will have to
offer developing countries around 100 billion euros (147 billion
dollars) a year by 2020 to adjust to climate change.
During talks at the UN conference in Athens, Ban said the number
of people living outside their country of birth was more than ever
before, due to poverty and war.
"Today the number of international migrants is greater than at any
other time in history, with 214 million people living outside their
country of birth," he said.


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