65 world leaders to participate in Climate Summit

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

unmeet3It has been revealed that 65 heads of states and governments will be attending the most important environmental summit held in December this year in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The organizers of the climate summit announced this week that leaders of most of the world’s biggest economies were planning to attend, including the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Indonesia. This sends positive signals of a climate saving deal to be reached in this meeting.

When President Mohamed Nasheed was once asked by a journalist what would be the option left if the Copenhagen summit fails, his answer was, “we will die.”

By saying this President Nasheed meant that Maldivians do not have a chance of living in this land and that we would have to live as refugees in some corner of the world.

After concluding the Vulnerable-14 summit held in Maldives, President of Kiribati Anote Tong said that even though they will not get 100% success at the climate summit, at least 90% success is expected.

The Climate Summit will begin on December 7 and will go on till 18th of the month. While initially invitations were sent out to environment ministers of all the UN member countries, organizers have upgraded that summit by sending out invitations to heads of state and governments. Danish officials are trying to get the participation of leaders of important states like USA and China, countries which are responsible for 40% of the world’s greenhouse gases.

The main purpose of the summit is to produce a new global climate-change treaty on limiting emissions of greenhouse gases that would replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which will end on 2012.

Some nations are working really hard to replace Kyoto Protocol with an even better treaty and the Danish officials do hope that a binding treaty will be reached in this particular conference. The Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently said he detected a move by nations in both the developed and developing world to reach a compromise agreement.

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