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Published on December 4th, 2008

UNFCCC’s Long-Term Vision ‘Should Be Based On Science’

The fourteenth conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is pushing forward with its continued deliberations on the way in which the world should approach and handle global warming and its effects.

A Difference of Opinion

Yvo de Boer, executive director, continues to reiterate the point that developing nations are clamoring for leadership from industrialized countries. According to de Boer, developing countries believe that “industrialized nations’ level of ambition to reduce emissions is still too low,” and that there is too much focus on emissions reductions by developing countries, which do not have binding reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol.

Developing nations also agree that there is a dire need to speed adaptation funding.

But They Do Agree That…

There are areas of debate where converging opitions are beginnging to appear, especially in the consideration that the “long-term vision should be based on science.” Also, all the building blocks of a future response to climate change (ie: mitigation, adaptation, finance and technology) need to be part of that vision.

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