UN Climate Deal at Risk Without Set Targets, Bangladesh Says
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Nations risk repeating the failure of climate talks in 2009 unless they sign up to mandatory emissions reductions in a treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, according to Bangladesh’s climate envoy to the United Nations.
“Unless we have mandatory targets to cut emissions that are enforceable under international law, we are headed for failure” at next year’s climate summit in Paris, Quamrul Chowdhury, who also acts as lead negotiator for 49 least-developed countries at the UN talks, said in an interview in London yesterday.