World leaders meet about climate change

About 100 leaders around the world came to the United Nations headquarters yesterday to discuss measures to prevent global warming. This is the highest level conference on climate change ever held.

Although US President Barack Obama will be the first speaker at the conference in New York City, the speech of Chinese, Indian leaders and a number of other major economies will attract attention. These heads of state have made more ambitious commitments than Obama - who is facing the US congressional problem on climate change.

" We will ask developing countries to do exactly what they say ," the AP quoted the British official Ed Miliband as saying. Recently, he pledged that before 2020, the country will cut more than one third of carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels.

US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao at a climate change summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 22.(Photo: Reuters)

Climate summit at United Nations headquarters yesterday and this week's G-20 summit is held to urge the US and rich countries to commit to cutting emissions, at the same time. donating tens of billions of USD to developing countries so that they do not have to cut down forests or burn coal.

China and the United States all generate about 20% of global emissions due to the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. European Union emissions account for 14%. Followed by Russia and India (each country accounts for 5%).

AP said, Chinese President Hu Jintao outlined new plans to expand energy saving programs and reduce pollution levels due to carbon emissions during economic development. The most populous country in the world has significantly reduced energy consumption in the past 4 years and will continue that effort until 2015. China recently announced that renewable energy will account for 15% of the total energy level of this country before 2020.

India, the world's fifth-largest emitter, is also interested in setting a plan to reduce emissions by using fuel more efficiently, protecting forests and increasing organic fertilizer use.

Under the administration of former President George W. Bush, the US refused to make a commitment to cut emissions on the grounds that China and India did nothing. Bush boycotted the 1997 Kyoto Protocol because it thought it had a negative impact on the US economy and had no binding provisions on China and India - two of the five economies created the most emissions. fine.

The September 22 summit is considered a stepping stone to the climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark in December this year. The purpose of the upcoming conference is to create a new international agreement to reduce emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol (which will expire in 2012). According to the BBC , UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that if countries could not reach a new agreement in December, it would be a " morally unforgivable " failure.