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COP 15 needs to provide help for vulnerable states

Says Danish minister

UNB, Dhahi
Danish Minister for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Connie Hedegaard has said the Copenhagen deal on climate change should involve binding medium and long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals for developed countries.
It should also put the big developing economies on a cleaner and greener path to prosperity, she said in a statement yesterday, according to a Danish embassy press release.
As Copenhagen hosts the crucial summit COP15, Hedegaard said that it needs to provide assistance for the vulnerable countries - those who are hit hardest and hit first.
“The deal must bring new and truly additional finance on the table - some of which needs to fund adaptation in developing countries - and an agreement needs to be reached on how we can work together to disseminate and develop technology and knowledge. These are the four cornerstones in Copenhagen that we must deliver on.”
She said the Danish government is working for an ambitious, global agreement that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and delivers on adaptation, technology and
finance. Also, Copenhagen should include a deadline for when to close a legally binding agreement.
" I line is of the essence. For each day we wait the price increases and the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change increase,” the Danish minister said.
She said that according to the International Energy Agency, every year lost to Inaction will cost 500 billion dollars.
“We must make the pressure pay and use the political momentum to make the leaders of the world live up to their responsibility and act swiftly on climate change.”
She added, “The Copenhagen deadline works. One by one, governments from all over the world are delivering before the climate conference.
Recently, concrete targets were seen from Brazil and South Korea and Russia improved its bid.”
Hedegaard said President Obama has announced US targets, not only for 2020, but maybe more noticeable for 2025 and 2030. Four percent below 1990 might not be what the world has been hoping for, but the US seems to know that the price for coming late is that the pathway for reductions after 2020 will be extra steep with 18% below 1990-ievels in 2025 and 32 percent in 2030.
She said it is also new and very encouraging that China comes forward internationally. “We must analyse more carefully what the new Chinese announcement translates to when it comes to a percentage for deviation from business as usual.”
The Danish minister noted it is a clear sign that the deadline of Copenhagen is working and world-leaders are feeling the pressure of expectations from citizens, business and the rest of society. “Now is the time for these leaders to live up to the pledges to our planet and deliver results in Copenhagen.”
She said Denmark didn't set the deadline tb be this December 2009. With the Bali Action Plan from 2007 the world as a whole decided that COP 15 in Copenhagen is a turning point in the campaign to put the world on a more sustainable path.
Some 192 countries signed up to this mandate, she said, adding, “We must not let that deadline slip out of our hands. Now is the time to act and now is the time to cash in on the political momentum."
Hedegaard said world leaders have promised the
citizens of the planet a solution. Now is the time to live up to that responsibility and come up with an ambitious, truly global climate agreement in Copenhagen.