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Argentina
Urges Nations To Assume
Respective Duties Against Climate Change
ESTORIL, Portugal -
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on
Tuesday called on emerging countries to set
humbler but more feasible goals of combating
climate change and developed countries to
shoulder their obligations.
"The fundamental problem to be discussed in
Copenhagen presents two issues: on the one
hand, the issue that developed countries
must assume their responsibility for the
planet's pollution, and on the other hand,
the goals that must be met," said the
Argentinian president.
Fernandez was responding to a Xinhua
reporter on the Ibero-American commitments
at the end of the 19th Ibero-American
Summit.
Heads of state and government of
Ibero-America issued the Lisbon Declaration
in Estoril on Tuesday. In the declaration,
they highlighted the role of innovation and
knowledge to achieve sustainable,
integrated, inclusive, equitable and
environmentally friendly development and
decided to tap and promote programs that
ensure technology transfer to developing
countries from developed ones.
"We all want to arrive in Copenhagen to make
agreements and determine concrete results.
But we must be honest and wise enough to
realize that the crux of the argument
involves those who should bear the brunt of
the environmental debts and responsibilities
of the gas emissions which have caused or
produced the debts," she explained.
The declaration also urged member nations to
help developing nations adapt to the adverse
climate change effects.
On Tuesday, Fernandez also noted that "the
present juncture of the global economic
crisis" is concurrent with environmental
pollution and global warming. She stressed
that the crisis "has shrunk the world
economy, with job losses and social
consequences, for which we must all increase
our commitments."
The 19th Ibero-American Summit was held from
Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 in the Portuguese coastal
town of Estoril with the participation of
heads of state and senior officials from 22
countries.
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