Rich states sharply divided over cut in gas emission

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From Fazle Rashid
NEW YORK, Nov 03: The countries that have been severely hurt by the global warming but do not have doughs to undertake the repair have recently taken resorts to measures that apparently appear ludicrous to draw international attention to the most serious challenge facing the world, the dangerous impact of the global warming.
The wealthiest nations are sharply divided over the question of limit of the gas emission and sharing the expenses of nearly $100 billion a year until 2050 to fight and off-set the climatic imbalances. The questions have taken more ugly turn due the devastation caused to the global economy by the meltdown. Productions have to be accelerated to reach the pre-crisis level of productivity, that will push up gas emission and who is going to pay the huge sum of money with the national purses of most of the countries have dried up.
Nepal will hold a cabinet meeting atop the Himalayas few days ahead of the all important Copenhagen meeting on climate change to highlight the threat from the global warming which is causing snow caps and glacier to melt faster than earlier anticipated. Over 54 rivers in Bangladesh will dry up in next ten years, an international agency based in Nepal monitoring the rate of melting snow, warned recently.
The Maldives last month held a under water cabinet meeting to highlight the threat of the global warming. The country will go under the sea if the impact of the global warming is not significantly reduced. The Copenhagen climate summit billed for next month has been doomed before it could start. President Obama is likely to skip the summit.
China and US are at loggerheads over the limit of emission and who is going to pay how much to offset the imbalance mainly in poor countries. The European Union (EU) nations have pledged to pay over $50 billion but stated that the US, China and Japan must divulge how much money they will pay. There are certain inconceivable things that call for change. Iceland and India both contribute dollar 100 million each to the UN fund.
Meanwhile, the ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has continued to retreat rapidly declining 26 per cent since 2000, the New York Times (NYT) reported today quoting a recent study. Eighty five per cent of the ice that was present on the mountain top in 1912 has vanished.