The United Nations' negotiating process on climate change needs to make good and quick progress at the upcoming Climate Change Conference slated for early December in Poznan, Poland, a U.N. official told reporters here Monday.
According to the latest data from the secretariat of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the emissions of 40 industrialized countries with greenhouse gas reporting obligations under the UNFCCC remained below the 1990 level by about 5 percent in 2006, but rose by 2.3 percent in the 2000 to 2006 time frame.
"The figures clearly underscore the urgency for the U.N. negotiating process to make good progress in Poznan and move forward quickly in designing a new agreement to respond to the challenge of climate change," said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UNFCCC.
"The biggest recent increase in emissions of industrialized countries has come from economies in transition, which have seen a rise of 7.4 percent in greenhouse gas emissions within the 2000 to 2006 time frame," de Boer added.
The U.N. Climate Change Secretariat moved to Bonn, Germany, in 1996, following the decision taken in Berlin by the first Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC. The secretariat releases UNFCCC data every year. |
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