The ministerial high segment of the UN climate change summit started yesterday with the hope that all nations would go together for a green future.

Today is the last day of the Poznan conference, which was termed the "halfway mark" of the Copenhagen deal in 2009. So far, no concrete decision was made about way forward to deal with climate change in comingfuture.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Poland President Lech Kaczynski, Guyana President Bharat Jagdeo, Tuvalu Prime Minister Apisai Lelemia, Sweden Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and UNFCC Executive Secretary Yvo De Boer spoke at the ministerial talks chaired by Conference of Party (COP) President Prof Nowciki.

Raja Devasish Roy, special assistant to the chief adviser for environment and forest ministry, was present at the occasion as the head of the Bangladesh delegation. He is going to present Bangladesh's position about climate change at the shared vision meeting today.

The UN secretary general in his speech said the world's poorest should not suffer first and worst from a problem they did least to create. The nations need to sketch out the critical elements in a long-term vision, he added.

"We need a basic framework for cooperative action starting today, not in 2012. Within this framework, industrialised countries must set ambitious long-term goals, coupled with midterm emission reduction targets, "he said.

SEE PAGE 15 COL 3 "We must re-commit ourselves to the urgency of our cause."

Meanwhile, the two-day European heads of state and government meeting started in Brussels yesterday to decide about the European Union's climate change policies up to 2020.

The EU summit in Brussels holds "great consequences for the whole world," which looks to the EU for leadership on climate change, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned in hisspeech.

"We look for leadership from tire European Union. The decisions currently being made by the European leaders in Brussels are (of) great consequences for the whole world."

Ban also called for a "Green New Deal" under which part of the massive stimulus to tackle the world financial crisis would be devoted to weaning economies from carbon pollution.

Meanwhile, sources in the Bangladesh delegation in Poznan said Bangladesh is going to demand legal status for climate migrants today along with others demands including quick disbursement of LDCs fund and developing a climate index mechanism before allocating adaptation fund.

The sources added the LDCs climate change fund could be settled at the Poznan meeting. Tire LDCs are pushing it so that they-can start implementing their emergency projects from thebeginningof2011.

The LDCs fund already has an amount of $172 billion what could be raised up to $200 billion as many countries are committed to contribute to the LDCs fund.

The Bangladesh delegations and Oxfam international had a bilateral meeting yesterday at the conference centre where they discussed adaptation funds, adaptation and mitigations issues. Barry Coates, Antonio Hill and Ziaul Hoque Mukta from Oxfam were present

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt announced Sweden's pledge of $500 million for adaptation to be shared among multiple adaptation funds.

Former US vice-president and Nobel laureate Al Gore is set to deliver his speech at the conference today.