Climate change - foremost geopolitical and economic problem of XXI century - UN Sec-Gen
YORK. September 23. KAZINFORM /Aliya Altyngazina/ The Summit on Climate Change with participation of more than 100 heads of states, governments, international organizations and national ministries was held in the UN Headquarters in New York yesterday.
Kazakhstan was represented by the delegation of the Ministry of Environmental Protection headed by Nurgali Ashimov.
The summit is aimed at speeding up the preparation of a new international agreement on limitation and reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
Making a speech Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expressed hope for mobilizing political momentum and signing an effective agreement at the December Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. He noted slow pace of negotiations. "The glaciers I saw a few weeks ago in the Arctic are melting faster than human progress to preserve them", he said. He called the climate change a foremost geopolitical and economic problem of the XXI century.
President of the United States of America Barack Obama announced of the radical change of the US position regarding the issue. He said the new national policy is aimed at cutting car emissions. The US invests a lot in development of renewable energy sources.
President of France Nicolas Sarkozy suggested creating a world environmental organization by 2012 and holding one more summit devoted to greenhouse gas emission cut ahead of the Copenhagen Conference.
Chinese Leader Hu Jintao told about the plans on development of green economy and use of ecologically clean technologies.