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UK's PM Believes In Global Climate Change Agreement
Despite the non-binding results of last month's climate summit in Copenhagen, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has recently announced that he believed a global agreement to combat climate change might still be possible.
When asked what was next on the agenda following the UN climate meeting, Gordon Brown told the BBC: "I've got an idea about how we can actually move this forward over the next few months and I'll be working on this".
"I think it's not impossible that the groundwork that was done at Copenhagen could lead to what you might call a global agreement that everybody is happy to stand by," he added.
"I'll be working on that in the next few months and I can see a way forward because what prevented an agreement was suspicion and fear and forms of protectionism that I think we've got to get over," he claimed, without giving specific details about his plans.
The Copenhagen climate change meeting was supposed to produce a legally binding outcome, imposing greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for all countries, determined independently.
Instead, the talks closed on a minimal accord reached by the US, China and other emerging powers, which constitutes a dismal result when compared to the expectations placed on the conference.
Although the accord set a target of limiting global warming to a maximum of +2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times, no mention of how this would be achieved was made clear.
Another round of climate talks is scheduled for November 2010 in Mexico. Negotiators are hoping to nail down then what they failed to achieve in Copenhagen -- a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
Monday 4th January 2010
