Conference on climate change
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According to recent reports, as the conference on climate change is going on in Durban, the developed and the developing countries have taken opposite stance regarding the renewal of Kyoto protocol. Industrialised countries such as Canada, Australia and Japan are reluctant to reduce carbon emission as per the Kyoto protocol. On the other hand, countries suffering because of climate change--small islands and LDC countries-- want a renewal of the treaty. It is a common knowledge that Southern nations, poor as they are, are suffering because of the action of the industrialised Northern countries. Long spell of drought, erratic rainfall, and nasty cyclones--all these natural disasters have become a common feature of those nations. We hope the delegates of the conference will renew the Kyoto protocol and do something concrete to save the planet.
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