Click to play videoNew Delhi: US President Barack Obama has made it clear that Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries are aiming to meet the deadline for adopting a new climate change agreement at Copenhagen.
"We are working towards a successful outcome at Copenhagen. I support what Rasmussen (Danish PM) is trying to achieve. It won't be a political or partial agreement but a comprehensive agreement. This comprehensive agreement will provide solutions to climate change," said Obama.
Obama's words are of hope, that the deadline for adopting a new deal to tackle climate change will be taken seriously . His statement comes just days after reports that the member countries of APEC including the US had agreed to push the deadline further to next year.
This, as the deadlock over commitments to cut carbon emissions continues.
The US Senate has not yet agreed to a legislation to cap emissions. Meanwhile, climate change experts are stressing that for the talks to succeed, US must lead.
"US has to take the lead. It is the most prosperous country and plus it also is the world's largest emitter. Obama had said that US will take the lead and their position will cast a shadow over Copenhagen," said Director General of The Energy and Resource Institute and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, R K Pachauri.
Soon the world will come together to ink a new deal on climate change to replace the existing Kyoto Protocol. But unless the US comes on the board and puts something concrete on the table in terms of financing and binding emission cuts, it may just end up as a political agreement.
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