Doha: African environment ministers called on participants in the high-level ministerial meeting of the UN Climate Change Conference COP18, to be responsive to the demands the African ministers want to negotiate.
They also called for actively working on implementing those demands after they are agreed, especially the second commitment phase of the Kyoto Protocol and its duration.
The ministers said that finding a legal framework that pleased all parties involved was paramount.
They expressed hope that the ministers who will participate in the meeting will build on the agreements reached in the Marrakesh Climate Change Conference in 2001.
The agreements in that conference laid down the implementation mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol. The Marrakesh conference also included agreements to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, one of the reasons for global warming, and having developed countries financially and technologically back developing countries in combating the effects of global warming.
Commissioner of the African Union for Climate Change Michael Gimen during his speech, in the press-conference held on the sidelines of COP18, called on developed countries to provide technological backing to developing countries. He called on all the parties involved to sign second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
He also called on developed countries to honor the financial commitments they made in the Durban conference held in December 2011.
QNA
