World Conference on Climate Change opens in Chile
29/10/2008 17:25
The World Conference on Climate Change and Renewable Energies yesterday
opened at the Sheraton Hotel in Santiago.
The Conference, due to be concluded
on Oct. 31, was organized by the Chilean government in collaboration with the
World Bank, the Latin American Organization of Energy (OLADE) and the United
Nations' (UN) programs of Climate Change and Environment.
Addressing the
opening ceremony, Chilean Environment Minister Ana Lya Uriarte said Chile has
played an active role in helping tackle the challenges of the climate change in
recent years.
Uriarte hailed the effect of the Clean Development Mechanism,
saying it has created "an opportunity for the developing countries, like ours,
to contribute to the global environment."
He also said Chile would compromise
if necessary in the world's collective search for solutions to the global
warming. He also stressed the urgency to address the environment
issue.
"(Chilean) President Michelle Bachelet has been particularly clear
regarding this, before the international community, that climate change is the
great ethical cause of the humanity this century, as well as Peace for the past
century," the minister said.
Xinhua
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