Global warming,(not) just a bussines
by Ivana Bruderova
Delegates from 190 countries of the world take part in the biggest conference for saving our planet which have been organized. From government ministers to farmers and fishermen, more than 10,000 people try to arrange alternative for the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, in these days in Bali. Critics says they are contributing to something which in fact they want to stop. "Nobody denies this is an important event, but huge number of people are going and their emissions are probably going to be greater than a small African country," said Chris Goodall, author of the book "How to Live a Low-Carbon Life". But specialists claim the answer of question if we really need to do it is: "Yes." Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Climate Change Conference says:" If you don't put the U.S, big developing countries, the European Union around the table to craft the solution together, nothing will happen and then prophecy of scientists in terms of rising emissions and its consequences will become a reality." As a symbolic gestures, all handed out documents are printed on recycled paper and 200 bright yellow bicycles have been offered to participants, which can be used to moving among the places of conference. Another rarity in Indonesia are bins separated plastic and paper for them because formal recycling is here nonexistent. Is improbable that there will be some definitive result, but this can be a start of new effort to make a compromise and to establish conditions acceptable for developed as well as for developing countries. More than 100 delegates was sent by U.S, all countries from the E.U are represented by national teams(Germany 70 people, France 50 people...). Many of them are just observers. Non-governmental organizations are also attending, like Oxfam and CARE, which provide food and other humanitarian for hungry. At last but not least those who have something to sell - technologies to produce drinking water, etc. To sum up global warming is everyone's business.
| by Ivana Bruderova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
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