[unep tyac express] UN CHIEF CALLS FOR RICH STATES TO CUT GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS

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UN CHIEF CALLS FOR RICH STATES TO CUT GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS

Rich countries must cut their “unacceptably high” greenhouse gas emissions and provide incentives for poorer nations to follow suit, the United Nations secretary general told a meeting of more than 80 heads of state and government on climate change yesterday.

Ban Ki-moon said industrialised countries must show more leadership on the issue. “It has been 10 years since the Kyoto protocol was adopted. Yet most industrialised country emissions are still rising and their per capita emissions remain unacceptably high.”

He said poor countries, rather than being given the strict emissions reduction targets meted out to the developed world under the current Kyoto protocol, should be given “incentives to act . . . without sacrificing economic growth or poverty reduction”.

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