Climate change summit pledges international response
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The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, has ended with a clear commitment from governments to shift into full negotiating mode next year in order to shape an effective international response to climate change, UNTWO has reported.
“Governments have sent a strong political signal that despite the financial and economic crisis, significant funds can be mobilized for both mitigation and adaptation in developing countries with the help of a clever financial architecture and the institutions to deliver the financial support,” said Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
“We now have a much clearer sense of where we need to go in designing an outcome which will spell out the commitments of developed countries, the financial support required and the institutions that will deliver that support as part of the Copenhagen outcome,” he added.
Countries meeting in Poznan made progress on a number of issues that are important in the short run – to 2012 – particularly for developing countries, including adaptation, finance, technology and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
In addition, the conference discussed in detail the issue of disaster management, risk assessment and insurance, essential to help developing countries cope with the inevitable effects of climate change.
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