11.27.2007 9:24 AM
U.N.: Wealthiest Nations Fail Global Warming Test
Effort to Reduce Poverty Undone by Failure to Reduce Carbon Emissions
In October Kofi Anan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, declared climate change the world’s most urgent humanitarian challenge. The Ghanaian diplomat’s words are clearly echoed in today’s United Nations’ Human Development Report 2007-2008.
The UN report claims the world’s greatest economies have once again failed to reach internationally mandated targets in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Such negligence will impair the poor, destroying the United Nations prior work to reduce poverty worldwide, reported Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
The Human Development Report comes days before the UN’s December conferences. Activists hope the testimony will inspire governments to develop a strong follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Now that Australia has pledged to sign the Kyoto Protocol, the United States is the only industrialized nation not to join the world effort to curb carbon emissions.
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