LAST MONDAY 26th NOVEMBER 2012 Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah bin Hamad al-Atrtiyah unveiled the 18th conference of the parties (COP18) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), being attended by about 200 nations.
Last year at the Durban (South Africa) climate talks, governments agreed to sign a global deal in 2015 and to cut emissions for the period until it comes into force in 2020.
GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL has called for the extension of the Kyoto Protocol and a new global climate treaty by 2015.
GREENPEACE RUSSIA in a statement circulated on Monday suggests extending the Kyoto Protocol, which expires this year, from 2013 until 2017, while simultaneously cancelling the unused greenhouse emission quotas and drafting a new, more effective global climate accord by 2015, Greenpeace Russia said in a statement circulated on Monday.
"Greenpeace is convinced that developed nations should help developing countries that will be the first hit by the effects of global climate change. Developed nations should fix financing for the Green Climate Fund set up to support the introduction of 'green' technologies in developing countries. In 2013, it should amount to at least $20 billion, and by 2020 - to $100 billion per year," the statement says.
Member states should commit themselves to greenhouse gas cuts to the extent that would slash emissions by 80% on average towards 2050, compared with the 1990 level, with the peak falling on 2015.
"These measures will make it possible to contain global warming within a range of 2 degrees Celsius," Greenpeace ecologists say.
With fresh round of climate talks getting underway Monday at Qatar in Doha, environmental organisation Greenpeace called for an urgent action to avoid catastrophic global warming, as climate change was already gripping the planet.
"Climate change is no longer a distant threat for future, but is with us now, as evident from devastating storms, droughts and floods in the US, China, India, Africa and Europe that left behind a trail of death and destruction," Greenpeace climate campaigner Martin Kaiser said in a statement from Doha.[ENDS]
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