Wednesday, February 6, 2008

UN supports India's position on climate change

February 6 2008

NEW DELHI: The United Nations on Wednesday supported India's position on climate change and pulled up the United States for its failure to do enough to curb the green house gas (GHG) emissions.

"No, I don't think that the US is doing enough on either front to curb emissions. In that manner, not a single industrialised country is doing sufficient to tackle the climate change," Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, told reporters in New Delhi.

He said that with only two years left for negotiations that will end in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 as decided by the recent Bali summit, there was a need for enhanced global cooperation particularly between developed and developing countries in tackling climate change.
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