Slow pace in negotiation may endanger Copenhagen summit success
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
FE Report
The slow pace of progress in the negotiation process might put a hurdle in achieving the expected outcome from the upcoming summit on climate change to be held in Copenhagen of Denmark in December next, experts said.
Experts and environmental journalists of Asia and the Pacific region expressed the concern on the first day of their three-day congress at the city's National Press Club Tuesday.
The congress of the Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) along with the 5th meeting of the World Water Forum of Journalists (WWFJ) began Tuesday with 'Reaching Copenhagen Climate Summit and Beyond: Role of Media' as the key theme.
A deliberate consensus among the countries, whether worst or least victims of climate change, is a must for the fruitful conclusion of the negotiation process, which has been taking place for the last two years, the experts said.
Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Yvo de Boer in a message to the congress said the heads of state and government should provide clear political guidance to the negotiators of the coming sessions of the negotiations.
Attending the congress as the chief guest, Environment and Forest Secretary Mihir Kanti Majumder said the developed countries must take a lead to make the Copenhagen Summit a grand success, as mitigation is the only sustainable solution to climate change.
The slow pace of progress in the negotiation process might put a hurdle in achieving the expected outcome from the upcoming summit on climate change to be held in Copenhagen of Denmark in December next, experts said.
Experts and environmental journalists of Asia and the Pacific region expressed the concern on the first day of their three-day congress at the city's National Press Club Tuesday.
The congress of the Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) along with the 5th meeting of the World Water Forum of Journalists (WWFJ) began Tuesday with 'Reaching Copenhagen Climate Summit and Beyond: Role of Media' as the key theme.
A deliberate consensus among the countries, whether worst or least victims of climate change, is a must for the fruitful conclusion of the negotiation process, which has been taking place for the last two years, the experts said.
Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Yvo de Boer in a message to the congress said the heads of state and government should provide clear political guidance to the negotiators of the coming sessions of the negotiations.
Attending the congress as the chief guest, Environment and Forest Secretary Mihir Kanti Majumder said the developed countries must take a lead to make the Copenhagen Summit a grand success, as mitigation is the only sustainable solution to climate change.