A top official of the United Nations body monitoring climate change called on the dozens of industrialized nations that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gasses to sustain their momentum as they move toward legally binding targets for cutting carbon emissions by 2012.
s he accepted a top global award in Dubai for his work with the environment, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged world leaders to use the United Nations-backed Kyoto Protocol to move on climate change and called for governments, businesses and citizens to adopt a new mindset on energy resources.
Eastern European countries, which disproportionately produce greenhouse gas emissions , have taken a small but very significant step in tackling the problem thanks to a United Nations-backed project, a new report released today says.
