World faces last chance to avoid fatal warming: EU

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The world faces a final opportunity to agree an adequate global response to climate change at a U.N.-led meeting in Copenhagen in December, the European Union's environment chief said on Friday.

World leaders from about 190 countries meet in Copenhagen in December to try to agree a global framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol on fighting global warming, which expires in 2012.

"It is now 12 years since Kyoto was created. This makes Copenhagen the world's last chance to stop climate change before it passes the point of no return," European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told a climate conference in Budapest on Friday.

"Having an agreement in Copenhagen is not only possible, it is imperative and we are going to have it," Dimas said.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE51Q22X20090227

[opihimoimoi]

1. I agree...President OBAMA should attend to demonstrate the seriesofness

of the sit.

[tex-wyo-dem]

2. absolutely agree...

Copenhagen is critical.

[opihimoimoi]

4. I can assure you Pres Obama won't be MOONED like Bush was back in 2001

He really should go to promote a GLOBAL EFFORT to end Planetary Abuse

[The2ndWheel]

3. I said it when an article about this was brought up before

It's so critical that they won't come up with an agreement until December. Not February 27th, not March, not even June, but December. Then, the agreement they will try and come up with won't even be used until January of 2013, and any goals in the agreements are for 2020, 2050, and whatever other year they throw out there that isn't too close.