{"id":419895,"date":"2010-03-12T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2010-03-12T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:19:10","slug":"sarkozy-calls-for-%e2%80%98representative%e2%80%99-bloc-to-work-on-climate-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/419895","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy calls for \u2018representative\u2019 bloc to work on climate agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jNcYn41DoIUhLYsvgKUqhKotngRQD9ECEIP86\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/media\/ALeqM5gyOjjwtPG4N51MEicJj1MmZNKYkQ?size=s2\" width=\"299\" align=\"left\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/03\/11\/10\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: French President Nicolas Sarkozy today pushed for reforms to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/contributor\/united.nations\">United Nations<\/a> and urged climate negotiations to continue with a small &#8220;representative&#8221; group to accelerate action.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy, opening a one-day conference on deforestation in Paris, said while there is &#8220;no alternative strategy&#8221; to the United Nations since it gives all nations a voice in a global arena, it is essential that there be changes to the system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.N. is absolutely indispensable and yet at the same time, it&#8217;s not working,&#8221; Sarkozy said. &#8220;I am certain that we need to reform the United Nations, otherwise the United Nations will end up in an impasse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The French leader repeated previous ideas for overhauling the Security Council, such as widening the number of members and apportioning seats on a regional basis.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed to the success of a small group of countries that were able to hammer out the Copenhagen Accord in a few hours as the model for how a future climate pact could be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to scrap the format by which all issues are negotiated simultaneously by all countries under the 192-nation U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, where unanimous approval is essential, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy stressed that the method used to reach the Copenhagen Accord should be the template for a future global U.N. climate summit scheduled for December in Cancun, Mexico (Richard Ingham, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100311\/sc_afp\/unclimatewarmingforests\" >AFP\/Yahoo News<\/a>, March 11).<\/p>\n<p>The deforestation meeting, to be followed by a May conference in Oslo, is geared toward developing forest-preserving measures agreed on in principle at the Copenhagen conference.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy said he hoped the conference will garner more funding pledges for forests, help organize how pledged aid will be disbursed and bring in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Developed countries have pledged to raise $30 billion over the next three years to help poorer countries adapt to climate change and a total of $100 billion in annual aid by 2020 to help developing countries preserve forests, protect coasts and take other steps to adapt to climate change (Elaine Ganley, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jNcYn41DoIUhLYsvgKUqhKotngRQD9ECEIP86\" >Associated Press<\/a>, March 11). <strong>&#8211; DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3197&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3197\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: French President Nicolas Sarkozy today pushed for reforms to the United Nations and urged climate negotiations to continue with a small &#8220;representative&#8221; group to accelerate action. Sarkozy, opening a one-day conference on deforestation in Paris, said while there is &#8220;no alternative strategy&#8221; to the United Nations since it gives all nations a voice in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}