日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

Expectations low for Durban: UN official

Updated: 2011-12-02 16:17

(Xinhua)

  Comments() Print Mail Large Medium  Small 分享按鈕 0

UNITED NATIONS - Negotiations on climate change are now underway in Durban, South Africa, but the United Nations has warned that those looking for a groundbreaking agreement on emission reductions will again be greatly disappointed.

"It's safe to say that expectations are low for this conference of parties," Robert Orr, assistant secretary-general for policy coordination and strategic planning, told reporters Thursday afternoon at the UN headquarters in New York.

The UN Climate Change Conference is taking place in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9.

Orr said that when high-level negotiations are held next week, government officials will have to face some very sobering facts from meteorological and weather experts.

"The World Meteorological Organization this year has a report that greenhouse gas concentrations have reached record levels," Orr said.

"The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has an extensive report on extreme weather and disaster risk reduction indicating that, on a global scale, hot days have become hotter and occur more often, and that if emissions are allowed to spin out of control, the likely frequency of hot days will increase by a factor of ten," Orr said.

Though a comprehensive global agreement on carbon emissions reductions will probably not be achieved in Durban, the UN is looking to "build on the spirit of compromise" established by the Kyoto Protocol by moving towards a binding agreement.

The Kyoto Protocol, initially adopted in December 1997, is a treaty aiming to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous man-made interference with the Earth's climate system.

Currently, there are 193 parties (192 states and one regional economic integration organization) to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The first commitment period of the protocol is due to expire in 2012.

Ideally, negotiations in Durban will produce an heir to the Kyoto Protocol, but that is unlikely given the intransigence of many developed countries.

"The UN Secretary-General (Ban Ki-moon) wants to see progress towards a comprehensive binding climate change agreement, but we know that agreement is not going to happen in Durban," Orr said.

"At this point, no one is calling for that. There's a lot of hard spade work that has to be done first," he said.

"We have momentum in this process, we're not going to cross the finish line in Durban, but if parties remain as sincere and committed as they appear to be in these first few days in Durban, (we) will in fact move forward," Orr said.

Instead, Orr said, the United Nations' primary directive at Durban will be to raise funds for both short- and long-term investment in alternative energy sources and green technology.

The long-term investment fund, called the "Green Climate Fund," aims to channel billions of dollars to help poor countries tackle global warming. It has a goal of raising $100 billion by 2020.

However, the investment funds have proven contentious, as both donors and recipient countries continue to argue about how much control they will have over the money.

主站蜘蛛池模板: 在线视频一区二区三区 | 黄页在线免费看 | 欧美影视一区 | 欧美挤奶吃奶水xxxxx | 水蜜桃视频污 | 91在线观看免费高清 | 天堂网中文在线 | 一级片在线观看免费 | 91免费在线看片 | 亚洲第一页在线观看 | 欧美一级在线视频 | 91欧美日韩 | 国产小视频在线观看 | 处破女av一区二区 | 亚洲色图综合网 | 成年人免费观看视频网站 | 九色在线视频 | 亚洲一区在线免费 | 国产成人在线一区 | 你懂的在线视频网站 | 午夜在线观看免费视频 | 欧美 日韩 国产 在线观看 | 欧美精品久久久久久久 | 女同久久另类69精品国产 | 色婷婷国产精品久久包臀 | 国产性xxxx高清 | 四虎av在线播放 | 免费观看中文字幕 | 国产特黄一级片 | 日日操视频 | 亚洲天堂av一区 | 狠狠操在线 | 久久99久久久 | 国产91高清| 国产又黄又爽视频 | 国产黄色免费大片 | 久久午夜国产精品 | av在线你懂的 | 中文字幕在线中文 | 亚洲第一免费视频 | 精品国产一区二区三区在线观看 |