[ti:Aiming for a Deal on Climate Change]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.08]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.10]In Copenhagen, Denmark,
[00:10.40]the United Nations
[00:11.81]Climate Change Conference
[00:13.64]opened this week.
[00:15.58]Around fifteen thousand delegates
[00:18.33]and observers from nearly
[00:20.11]two hundred countries are there.
[00:22.29]Some call it "the last best chance"
[00:25.70]for an agreement
[00:27.08]to fight climate change.
[00:28.97]Yvo de Boer is the
[00:31.12]top climate official
[00:32.44]at the United Nations.
[00:34.34]"The time for formal
[00:36.72]statements is over.
[00:38.67]The time for restating
[00:40.58]well known positions is past.
[00:43.98]The time has come to
[00:45.81]reach out to each other.
[00:48.08]I urge you to build
[00:50.38]on your achievements,
[00:51.75]take up the work that
[00:53.25]has already been done
[00:54.32]and turn it into real action."
[00:56.11]But there are questions
[00:57.65]about how much can be done,
[00:59.93]and how an agreement
[01:01.76]would be put into action.
[01:03.41]The twelve-day conference
[01:05.55]ends next Friday.
[01:07.14]Late next week,
[01:08.81]leaders from more than
[01:10.36]one hundred countries
[01:11.70]are expected at the talks,
[01:13.69]including President Obama.
[01:15.95]Delegates hope
[01:17.67]to set new targets
[01:19.28]to reduce greenhouse gases
[01:21.36]-- the pollution blamed
[01:23.27]for trapping extra heat
[01:25.23]in the atmosphere.
[01:26.89]An existing agreement,
[01:28.98]the Kyoto Protocol,
[01:30.71]ends in two thousand twelve.
[01:33.30]Many countries have offered
[01:35.60]new proposals for cuts,
[01:37.48]including the United States and China.
[01:40.85]China is now the leading
[01:43.55]producer of greenhouse gases.
[01:46.05]But the United States and
[01:48.68]other industrialized nations
[01:50.66]were the top polluters for years.
[01:54.12]So they are under extra pressure
[01:56.94]to reduce emissions from cars,
[01:59.64]factories and other sources.
[02:02.40]In Washington,
[02:04.27]the Environmental Protection Agency
[02:06.97]on Monday declared carbon dioxide
[02:10.56]and other greenhouse gases a threat
[02:13.98]to public health.
[02:15.41]That clears the way
[02:17.27]for the administration
[02:18.77]to set limits,
[02:20.06]unless Congress acts first.
[02:22.57]But developing countries
[02:24.68]are also being urged to do more.
[02:27.92]And they, in turn, want help.
[02:31.09]They criticized a proposal
[02:33.62]for industrialized nations
[02:35.82]to pay developing countries
[02:38.18]ten billion dollars a year
[02:40.62]over three years.
[02:42.71]The World Bank says
[02:44.81]dealing with climate change
[02:47.00]will require hundreds
[02:49.46]of billions a year
[02:50.80]in public and private financing.
[02:54.21]In New York,
[02:56.21]the United Nations secretary-general
[02:59.26]reacted to a dispute
[03:01.66]over e-mails stolen
[03:03.70]from the University
[03:05.28]of East Anglia in England.
[03:08.22]Critics say the messages show
[03:11.46]climate change scientists
[03:13.94]discussing ways to discredit
[03:16.81]other theories about global warming.
[03:19.91]But Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday
[03:23.20]that the evidence is "quite clear"
[03:26.34]that humans are the main cause
[03:29.43]of temperatures rising
[03:31.41]faster than expected.
[03:33.41]Modern climate records
[03:36.96]date back to eighteen fifty.
[03:39.10]The United Nations weather agency says
[03:42.16]two thousand to two thousand nine
[03:45.44]was the warmest decade on record.
[03:49.16]And it said this week
[03:51.45]that final results will likely
[03:54.27]show two thousand nine
[03:56.19]was the fifth-warmest year on record.
[04:00.09]Current estimates show record
[04:03.77]warmth this year in large parts
[04:06.83]of southern Asia and central Africa.
[04:10.96]The agency reported that
[04:13.37]the only parts of the world
[04:15.27]with cooler than average conditions
[04:18.51]this year were the United States and Canada.
[04:22.76]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:25.06]in VOA Special English,
[04:27.95]written by Brianna Blake.
[04:30.07]For the latest news from Copenhagen,
[04:33.31]go to 51voa.com.
[04:37.79]I'm Steve Ember.
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