British PM warns
of failure but brings hope
According
to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the first sign of
progress in the negotiations could be seen Wednesday with
new proposals for climate change from African Union climate
negotiator Meles Zenawi.
Rie Jerichow - 16/12/2009 - As the first world leader, British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown (photo above) arrived Tuesday
in Copenhagen two days ahead of schedule, in order to help
broker discussions on who should pay to tackle global warming.
A
failure at the summit would have serious consequences. If
temperatures rise too far, the world economy would suffer
an unprecedented "catastrophe", he said, according
to British daily The Telegraph.
"If
we do not act to tackle climate change, the costs to our
standard of living will be huge - a reduction in our national
income of up to 20 percent, an economic catastrophe equivalent
in this century to the impact of two world wars and the
great depression in the last," he said, according to
the newspaper.
However,
the first sign of progress could come on Wednesday with
Ethiopia's prime minister and African Union climate negotiator,
Meles Zenawi, expected to announce new proposals for climate
change, The Guardian reports.
Meles
met Brown in London on Tuesday. According to The Guardian,
Brown said that Meles's proposals were an important step
forward and his ideas were a "framework within which
developed and developing countries can work together".
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