UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is
“reasonably optimistic” about a world climate
conference due to open in Paris at the end of
next month, he said in an interview published
Thursday.
“I am still reasonably optimistic that world
leaders will be able to adopt a universal
protocol on climate change before the end of
the year,” he told Italy’s Corriere della Sera
daily.
“There is some slowness in the negotiating
process which worries me, it’s true, and there is
not much time left,” he said.
He added, though, “there is now a wide
consensus in the world on the need to intervene
on the climate.”
“Almost everyone is now convinced that the
cost of inaction is higher than the cost of
intervening today,” he said.
The UN’s COP21 conference, running from
November 30 to December 11, aims at securing a
pact on greenhouse gases that would limit
global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6
degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.
The last big push for a world climate deal was in
Copenhagen in 2009. It nearly ended in a fiasco
after rich and poor countries bickered over how
to share the burden for addressing the problem
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