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Ban, Kerry urge action on climate
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday urged the world to overcome economic and political concerns to work out a "Green New Deal" to cope with climate change, while incoming U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's representative to talks in Poland, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., urged China -- now the world's top greenhouse gas emitter -- to commit to large-scale emissions cuts.
Reuters (12/11), Chicago Tribune (12/12)

Our say:
Over the past couple of years, discussions have been emerging among many of the influential international figures and entities (UN, US, EU, etc.). With the Kyoto Protocol expiring in 2012, the buzz on reaching a new agreement on climate change/ green house gas emission has been the one of the core topics (and a “universal value”) on numerous events. Yet on this specific issue, we can again easily observe the realism of international politics. The quarrel between “developed” and “developing” nations have been shoving the “responsibility” of reducing emission to each other. Seriously, who gives a damn about polar bears when you have hungry (perhaps even angry and armed) people, international pressure and/or big time industries on your back?

Source:
UN Wire (http://www.unwire.org/)

序言：
GIS Taiwan將定期張貼國際新聞的摘要報導，並無任何學術意圖，純粹提供一討論國際事務的平台。文章內清楚標明資料來源與作者評論的引述，歡迎各位學子一起分享你的心得與想法。

聯合國秘書長力倡「綠色新政」
聯合國氣候變遷大會今年12月11、12日於波蘭舉行。聯合國秘書長潘基文(Ban Ki-moom)迫切強調各國應盡力排除經濟與政治因素，共同實行「綠色新政」(Green New Deal)，合力對抗全球氣候變遷問題。美國總統當選人歐巴馬的代表，約翰克里於大會中特別要求中國，世界第一溫室氣體排放量國，遵守承諾大幅降低溫室氣體排放量。
文章摘錄自：Reuters (2009/12/11), Chicago Tribune (12/12)

評論：
過去幾年，重要的國際組織或團體紛紛出現，開始針對特別議題進行熱烈討論。
鑒於全球暖化，東京議定書將於2012任務到期後，如合議定新的氣候變遷方案及溫室氣體排放量的規定，成為最重要的核心問題。然而，各國討論此特別議題時，已開發國家與發展中國家間的爭論，相互推卸減少排放量的責任，我們不難發現國際政治體系的現實主義。說真的，當人們貧窮飢餓時，誰還在乎北極熊的存亡？

資料來源：UN Wire (http://www.unwire.org/)