Environmental Leaders to Meet as Emissions Rise
Emissions from industrialized countries reached a peak in 2006 after six years of growth, the United Nations said Monday. But the countries have not yet reported emissions from the past two years, and the new report did not include large emerging economies like those of India and China.
The U.N. report was released two weeks before the world's environmental ministers are to meet in Poland to discuss ways to curb greenhouse gases and against the backdrop of the global financial crisis.
In presenting the latest findings, U.N. officials said they are concerned that the economic downturn will add a new layer of uncertainty to the coming talks, because many of the programs under development to curb the emissions that cause global warming require credit and financing.
While they expressed some optimism about the new data, which went through 2006, the last year available, they said the slight decline - one-tenth of 1 percent from 2005 to 2006 - was too small to indicate a significant downward trend.
The U.N. report was released two weeks before the world's environmental ministers are to meet in Poland to discuss ways to curb greenhouse gases and against the backdrop of the global financial crisis.
In presenting the latest findings, U.N. officials said they are concerned that the economic downturn will add a new layer of uncertainty to the coming talks, because many of the programs under development to curb the emissions that cause global warming require credit and financing.
While they expressed some optimism about the new data, which went through 2006, the last year available, they said the slight decline - one-tenth of 1 percent from 2005 to 2006 - was too small to indicate a significant downward trend.
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