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UN Climate Change Conference opened in Poland

Published: 12/12/2008 05:00

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VietNamNet Bridge - Addressing the high-level segment of the UN Climate Change Conference in Poland, Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan stressed that environmental challenges can erode Vietnam’s efforts of reducing poverty and realizing millennium development goals.

VietNamNet Bridge - Addressing the high-level segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off Thursday in Poznań, Poland, Vietnamese Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan stressed that environmental challenges can erode Vietnam’s efforts of reducing poverty and realizing millennium development goals. Thus, the Vietnamese Government always keeps climate change at the top of its agenda.

The Poznań conference, which has drawn 11,600 participants, constitutes the half-way mark in the negotiations on an ambitious and effective international response to climate change, to be agreed in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 and to take effect in 2013, the year after the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires.

In Poland, delegates – including Ministers – will discuss their vision for long-term cooperative action on climate change. Poznań is the first time that Ministers will discuss a “shared vision for long-term cooperative action”. One of the key questions will be what kind of mechanisms need to be put in place to deliver on finance, technology and capacity building to help developing countries curb emissions, spur green growth and to cope with the inevitable impacts of climate change.

Delivering the opening statement to the gathering, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General stated that, the world is now facing two crises – climate change and the global economic recession.

“Our response to the economic crisis must advance climate goals, and our response to the climate crisis will advance economic and social goals,“ said Mr. Ban.

Addressing the delegates in Poznań, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), pointed towards the need to achieve progress on issues which are important in the short run – up to the end of 2012 - including adaptation, finance, technology and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

“The conference needs to deliver on on-going issues, especially issues that are important to developing countries,” he said. “And there is huge pressure on available time up to Copenhagen in 2009,” he added. “So next to on-going work, the conference also needs to lay a solid foundation for an ambitious climate change deal at Copenhagen.”

Speaking of behalf of Việt Nam, Deputy PM Nguyễn Thiện Nhân briefed serious damages suffered by the country over the past decade due to climate change.

He suggested ten OECD countries which are emitting over 40% of the world’s CO2 gas should design specific programs to assist five worst-affected countries.

On the same day, Deputy PM Nhân had bilateral meetings with chiefs of the delegations of the UK, France, the Netherlands and the UN Environment Program (UNEP).

UK Vice Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Joan Ruddock, Dutch Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning Jacqueline Cramer, and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner praised Việt Nam’s initiatives and contributions at the Climate Change Conference.

Advocating Việt Nam’s proposals on climate change assistance, they confirmed their willingness to help the country through the Adaptation Fund and international environmental forums.

According to the World Bank, five countries most terribly suffering from the sea level rising are Egypt, Việt Nam, Bangladesh, Surinam and Bahamas.

By 2050, if the sea level rises 1m, Việt Nam will lose 70-90% of its land in the Mekong Delta, causing the crop failure of 12-15 million tons of rice per year and 20 million people homeless. The annual damage is estimated at US $17 billion, accounting for 20% of GDP.

And the Mekong Delta can disappear in the world map when the sea level goes up 5m by 2080.

(Source: Government’s website)

Update from: http://english.vietnamnet.vn//politics/2008/12/818445/

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