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Serbia supports new climate change agreement

New York/Belgrade, 23 September 2009

Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic stated last night that participants in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was held yesterday as part of the UN General Assembly, agreed that the Kyoto Protocol should be replaced with a new agreement on climate changes, to be adopted late this year in Copenhagen.

Oliver Dulic

Author: Fonet

Dulic, who is attending the UN General Assembly in his capacity as the chairman of the UNEP Governing Council, told the Tanjug news agency that the new agreement will help reduce pollution, whose influence on the climate has been destructive.

The discussion was chaired by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and attended by key world leaders, including Serbian President Boris Tadic, he said, adding that all the participants expressed their worries about climate changes and promised to help tackle this problem.

US, Chinese and French Presidents Barack Obama, Hu Jintao and Nicolas Sarkozy stressed that the entire world must reach a consensus regarding the provision of financial assistance to developing countries for reducing the greenhouse effect, said Dulic.

The Minister said that according to expert reports, the temperature of the earth might increase by 6ºC by 2100, which would speed up the melting of the North and South Poles and therefore increase sea levels by 1.5 metres.

US President Barack Obama stated that the USA is ready to deal with the problem of climate change by the innovative use of technology and investment in renewable energy sources.

Boris Tadic

Author: Fonet

Addressing the participants of the discussion, Serbian President Boris Tadic voiced his support for the new climate change agreement, as it clearly defines short and long-term climate goals which will help make global industry greener, clearer and more sustainable.

He said that the agreement must envisage a reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases in all developing countries, adding that special attention must be paid to ways of reaching sustainable economic development and the rooting out of poverty.

Serbia is very well aware that the new agreement will help provide investment, encourage innovation and enable the global spread of technology, said President Tadic, voicing his belief that it will help overcome the climate change crisis.