Climate Change
Lebanon PM calls for action on climate change
During an interview with LBCI television on Tuesday, Prime Minister Saad Hariri called on major states to take action on climate change and said that “Lebanon is willing to cooperate in the fight against global warming.”
Hariri stressed that the UN Climate Change summit in Copenhagen is very important for the whole world.
Hariri who is representing Lebanon at the summit in Copenhagen left Lebanon today accompanied by 4 ministers
U.N. chief calls for compromise at Copenhagen summit
Ministers were struggling to break deadlock in global climate talks in Copenhagen, three days before world leaders were due to seal an accord.
“In these very hours we are balancing between success and failure,” said Danish President of the two-week meeting, Connie Hedegaard, at the opening of the high-level phase of the talks.
“Success is within reach. But … I must also warn you: We can fail.” Organizers of the talks said environment ministers would work deep into night on Tuesday to narrow wide differences, saying the bulk of the work must be complete before some 115 leaders formally join the meeting on Thursday.
“Three years of effort have come down to three days of action,” UN chief Ban Ki-moon said. “Let us not falter in the home stretch. No one will get everything they want in this negotiation.” Reuters
Hariri heads a ministerial delegation to Copenhagen summit
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in Denmark to participate in the UN Climate Change Conference at the head of the Lebanese delegation that includes ministers Mohammad Rahhal, Rayya al-Hassan, Gebran Bassil and Mohammad Jawad Khalifeh.
According to local reports Hariri is expected to address the conference on Wednesday. He is also expected to meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon .
Over 900 hundred detained in Copenhagen protests
Thousands of protesters took to the streets and hundreds were detained Saturday in Copenhagen as they demanded a climate-change agreement that would curb greenhouse gas emissions and aid developing countries harmed by pollution.
They marched to the Bella Center in the Danish capital, where the global climate change summit is being held.
More than 900 protesters were detained, police told CNN, but nearly all were released. Only five were charged and will go to court Sunday, police said.
Countries are expected to end negotiations in Copenhagen on an ambitious new climate deal by next Friday, the end of the two-week summit.
EU pledges $3.6 billion in aid for developing countries to cope with climate change
European Union is earmarking nearly $3.6 billion yearly in short-term aid for developing countries to adapt to climate change. At a summit in Brussels, EU leaders also agreed to cut their carbon emissions by 30 percent – if other developed countries followed suite. Source: VOA
Pollution, climate change cost Lebanon annually $565 million
Environment Minister Mohammed Rahhal said at a conference in Beirut that pollution and climate change cost Lebanon $ 565 million dollars a year.
The Arab Countries And Copenhagen
By Ghassan Karam
The peace Nobel laureate, Desmond Tutu a South African cleric, sent a letter to the EU parliament in which he berated them for not acting to slow down climate change.
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