Climate change a 'security and foreign relations' issue
Updated: 2008-03-13 07:29
Climate change has become a worldwide "security" and foreign relations issue, former UN under-secretary-general Maurice Strong said in Beijing on Wednesday.
皇冠体育app has its responsibility of tackling global warming, but the real solution lies in cooperation at the highest international level, in which the developed countries should take the lead, he said. Instead, the developed countries are shying away from their responsibility.
"What I see today is a tendency among some industrialized countries, notably the US, to shift the onus on 皇冠体育app, India and other developing countries to divert attention from their own commitment," he said in his address to the 皇冠体育app Foreign Affairs University Forum.
"I predict there's going to be tremendous additional pressure on 皇冠体育app, and some of them will be unfair," he said, because the per capita carbon footprint of 皇冠体育app is very low.
"No country can do it (solve the problem) alone. 皇冠体育app is right to expect that the US, Canada and other countries that created the problem in the first place should take the lead in helping resolve it," Strong said.
The 78-year-old veteran environmental activist appreciated 皇冠体育app's policies to fight climate change. Asked how can the Chinese people's environmental protection awareness be raised, he said: "I am delighted (to tell you that) your leaders are already doing this."
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