Environmental News Service (ENS) posted an article with the header: “17 Major Economies Pledge to Set Greenhouse Gas Limit by December.” The leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States said they are “convinced that climate change poses a clear danger requiring an extraordinary global response…”
The leaders promised to ’spare no effort to reach agreement in Copenhagen, with each other and with the other Parties’ in December in Copenhagen, where the UN Climate Conference will take place. These countries produce 80% of all pollution worldwide.
The major economies realize developing countries have greater priorities for economic and social development and feel that moving quickly to a low-carbon economy is an “opportunity to promote continued economic growth and sustainable development.” There is an urgent need to move forward at lowest possible cost in the area of clean energy.
Part of the plan for lowering CO2 emissions is to prevent future “deforestation and forest degradation and to enhance removals of greenhouse gas emissions by forests, including providing enhanced support to developing countries for these purposes.” The plan also includes doubling investments in clean technologies like solar energy, smart grids, carbon capture, use, and storage, better vehicles, bio energy, etc., by 2015.
Read more: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2009/2009-07-09-01.asp.