December 7 starts the historic assembly of world leaders to act as one in an effort to bring a new international climate treaty to deal with the potentialy catastrophic dangers of climate change specifically global warming.
The 192 nation members of United Nations (UN) will gather world leaders including US President Barack Obama will last unti December 19.
It is expected to be the biggest get together of assemblies and delegates of diplomats, ministers and even environmental activists from around the globe. Even the Vatican as Pope Benedict XVI has expressed support and called for “sober and responsible lifestyle”.
One of the expected highlights of this event is the “Earth Hour” which will take place on December 16 at 7PM when the lights of the city will be turned off which shall signify the need for a deeper commitment to a climate treaty. But what is most anticipated is the arrival of world leaders and their pledges to cut CO2 emissions and deforestation which are considered to be the major causes of global warming.
The urgency of the call for a new treaty stemmed from the impending expiration of in 2012 of the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement on climate change which binds only industrialized countries and the European Union for reducing greenhouse gas emission. What is expected from this summit is the involvement of emerging and developing economics especially China.
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