"The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy," says Duncan Marsh, administrator of all-embracing altitude action at The Nature Conservancy. The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy We cannot delay. We can, we have to and we will accommodated the Copenhagen deadline.
Poznan, Poland (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 12, 2008 -- At the abutting of the United Nations altitude negotiations in Poznan, Poland, Duncan Marsh, administrator of all-embracing altitude action at The Nature Conservancy, issued the afterward statement:
"While the official affairs actuality in Poznan accept done little to move us afterpiece to an acceding in Copenhagen, important accomplish were taken by governments alfresco of the negotiating process.
"Developing countries showed they ambition to crop action to lower their emissions and accompany the all-around action adjoin altitude change. Brazil, Mexico and Peru, for example, anniversary appear targets to abate their emissions in the advancing years.
"And Environment Ministers from added than a dozen developed and developing nations active a collective account calling for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to be allotment of a new all-around altitude acceding in Copenhagen in 2009 - a arresting that the political will exists to assure the world's forests and lower anniversary carbon emissions.
"The table has been set for extensive a accord in Copenhagen. Developing countries accept taken a seat. It's time for the United States to crop its abode at the table.
"The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy.
"Time is active out and there is still a amazing aggregate of plan that needs to be done. We will accept to plan endlessly over the next year.
"Some accept said that during this banking crisis, we cannot acquiesce to act on altitude change. But the accuracy is we cannot acquiesce NOT to crop action. With anniversary year, the accurate after-effects become added evident: the best we wait, the college the amount and the greater the impacts we will all suffer.
"We cannot delay. We can, we have to and we will accommodated the Copenhagen deadline."
For added advice on the Conservancy's altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.
The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.
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