MaximsNewsNetwork: CLIMATE CHANGE COPENHAGEN: ACHIM STEINER of UNEP - UNTV

MaximsNewsNetwork: 05 December 2009 - UNEP - UNTV: Ahead of the climate change talks opening in Copenhagen on 7 December, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) head Achim Steiner calls for "transformational changes" to put the world economy on a low-carbon pathway, and says the only way to achieve this is for all nations to come out of Copenhagen with a framework agreement and firm commitment to financing support packages.
After a rollercoaster lead-up lasting months, climate change talks in Copenhagen are set to open Monday (7 December) with the aim of hashing out a global deal to cap greenhouse gas emissions, largely caused by fossil fuels.
Senior UN officials have pressed world leaders to agree on three main points by the end of Copenhagen: individualized targets by industrialized states to reduce emissions by 2020, a list of actions by developing nations, and clear short- and long-term financing to help poorer countries mitigate and adapt to climate change.
In an interview for UNifeed, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Achim Steiner said that in order to try and reverse some of the drivers of global warming, transformational changes were needed.
The only way to move the entire world economy towards a low-carbon pathway was through a global agreement, he said, and if that could not be reached in Copenhagen, the cost of losing time would be enormous.
SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Dalby, Professor, Department of Geography, Carleton University:
SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research:
SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP):
UNEP has enlisted the help of renowned photographer and filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
The UNEP Goodwill Ambassadors new film 6 Billion Others Climate Voices, consisting of six hundred interviews conducted in 17 countries and produced with support from UNEP and several other UN agencies, will be launched in Copenhagen.
The Copenhagen conference, set to begin on 7 December and culminate in a summit-level gathering on 17 and 18 December, aims to reach accord on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. That 1997 pact part of a larger UN climate change treaty featured strong, legally binding measures committing 37 industrialized states to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the period from 2008 to 2012.

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