IUCN Presses Developing Countries to Step Up to the Plate on C02. By James Kanter, NYTimes, October 6, 2008. "Valli Moosa, a former environment minister in South Africa and the president of IUCN, told a packed auditorium of delegates at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona on Sunday evening that poorer nations could no longer maintain that their emissions of planet-warming gases were insignificant compared to industrialized nations. (The developing world's carbon dioxide emissions now surpass those of industrialized countries, by one assessment.) 'It is not good enough for big developing countries to take absolutely no responsibility just because the biggest contributors to climate change are the developed countries,' Mr. Moosa said at the opening ceremony of the congress."
2008-10-06
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