WORLD NATIONS TO BEGIN CLIMATE CONFERENCE IN DENMARK

06.12.2009 [16:21]
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Baku, 6 December (AZERTAC). The world`s nations will come together in Copenhagen on Monday for 12 days of talks on fighting global warming, according to voanews.com

The 192 members of the UN`s Framework Convention on Climate Change are under increasing pressure to come up with an agreement to set targets for controlling emissions of global warming gases, and agreeing on how much rich countries should pay for poor nations` clean energy technology.

The participants will try to reach a new international accord on reducing emissions that would replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

On Saturday, tens of thousands of people held protests across Europe to demand tangible action at the conference.

In the London rally, most people were dressed in blue to create the illusion of a human wave around the Houses of Parliament.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown invited organizers of the protest to his office, where they planned to reiterate their message of a concrete action at Copenhagen.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President Barack Obama are expected to be among other leaders to attend the final sessions of the conference.

Mr. Obama had originally intended to take part in the meeting`s earlier stages, but his spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president decided U.S. leadership would be "most productive" during the final rounds of talks.

India is one of the world`s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide - a greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, whose country is another major polluter, also will be in Copenhagen.

China, India and the United States all have recently announced their targets for reducing carbon emissions.

WORLD NATIONS TO BEGIN CLIMATE CONFERENCE IN DENMARK

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