Poorer and developing countries say they are less able to deal with climate change and bear less responsibility for it than industrialized nations that have heavily polluted for decades.
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The EU has been pushing for a binding agreement, but said it is willing to move from that position as long as the overall wording is robust and has binding elements. We told him about the efforts we are making for that.
He pointed out that in confirmation of the interest of the Sultanate to confront climate change and to contribute to worldwide efforts to adapt to and mitigate the negative effects – though it is one of the countries contributing the least to total emissions – the Sultanate has acceded to the relevant global conventions and contributed effectively and with full responsibility to the regional and worldwide levels in all events and the preparatory meetings for the conference.
The Paris agreement would be the first to ask all countries to rein in their emissions; earlier pacts only required wealthy nations to do so.
“It is time for business to be more transparent, accountable and responsible by working individually and through trade associations to support climate policy”, the UN chief said during the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21).
With parts of the UK hit by severe rain and floods that rising temperatures may have played a part in, and warnings that extreme rainfall and flooding will worsen with climate change, the British team at the United Nations talks in Paris is being urged to secure a strong and binding deal.
The unexpected dip could either be a temporary blip or true hope that the world is about to turn the corner on carbon pollution as climate talks continue in Paris, said the authors of a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
At the moment, developed countries report their emissions under guidelines from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and put together inventories every year.
The EU supports a global emissions reduction target of 50% compared with 1990 levels by 2050.
Paris was still reeling from the shock of the frightful terrorist attacks when 40,000 politicians, scientists, bureaucrats, journalists and activists arrived to hammer out a new global warming treaty.
He also said developed countries need to shun their apprehensions about sharing technology with developing countries that need technological support from the developed world.
“And I think that would be a way of trying to get the best of both worlds, because we still have to get consensus from a lot of countries for whom the whole picture is going to be very important”, he added.
“We have to respect the goals we set for ourselves”, said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who is presiding over negotiations that are supposed to conclude with a signed agreement on December 11.
He said “We would like to see fossil fuel subsidies phased out”.
The head of the International Energy Agency is urging an end to government subsidies for fossil fuels, as world governments try to reach an accord to slow global warming.
The statement was released as countries draw dividing lines ahead the final days of negotiations on getting a new climate deal, and sees some of the poorest nations and those most vulnerable to climate change align themselves with the European Union to get the ambitious agreement they need.
Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar affirmed, “India is here to ensure that rich countries pay back their debt for overdraft that they have drawn on the carbon space”.
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Discussions have been broken into six broad areas, each of which is being led by a minister from a developed country and another from a developing nation.
