CLIMATE CHANGE-SUMMIT/OECD Most countries must increase decarbonisation efforts, says OECD

Record ID: 135219

  • Title: CLIMATE CHANGE-SUMMIT/OECD Most countries must increase decarbonisation efforts, says OECD
  • Date: 20th October 2015
  • Summary: BONN, GERMANY (OCTOBER 20, 2015) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF HOTEL WHERE CONFERENCE WAS HELD VARIOUS OF SIMON BUCKLE, HEAD OF CLIMATE CHANGE, BIODIVERSITY AND WATER DIVISION OF THE ENVIRONMENT DIRECTORATE AT OECD, SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF CLIMATE CHANGE, BIODIVERSITY AND WATER DIVISION OF THE ENVIRONMENT DIRECTORATE AT OECD, SIMON BUCKLE, SAYING: "Overall, countrie
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: Most countries around the world will need to step up their efforts to cut down on carbonisation, the head of the OECD's climate change division said in Bonn on Tuesday (October 20) where diplomats and experts are meeting to prepare for the U.N. climate summit in Paris later this year.
    Simon Buckle said that although "overall, countries are making progress," governments needed to "step up their efforts if they are to meet their own targets."
    "What we are seeing is that to meet the post-2020 targets, most countries will need to accelerate their decarbonisation efforts," Buckle said.
    A summit in Paris is supposed to agree a global accord for tackling climate change in December, but a last week of negotiations on the draft text, which began in Germany on Monday, got off to a stormy start with developing nations saying their demands had been omitted from the pared down 20-page draft.
    Developing countries said the draft, drawn up by two senior diplomats, favoured rich nations and failed to stress that developed nations needed to take the lead in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and to provide far more aid and clean energy technology.
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