The 15th Non- Aligned Movement (NAM) summit is expected to express its disappointment at the small progress achieved by the international community in dealing with climate change, according to the summit' s draft final document acquired by Xinhua Sunday.
"The heads of state and government (of NAM) expressed their disappointment at the very slow progress of the implementation of the Bali Action Plan," the document said.
They "reaffirmed the need to reach an agreed outcome at the 15th conference of the parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen" in December, it added.
At the UN climate change conference on Indonesia's Bali island in December 2007, the participating nations adopted the Bali Action Plan, or the Bali Roadmap, as a two-year process to finalize a binding agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009.
"The heads of state and government urged the international community to assist developing countries to address the adverse impact of climate change, particularly through new, additional, grant-based and predictable financial resources, capacity building, and access to and transfer of technology on concessional and preferential terms," the document said.
The NAM summit reaffirmed the fundamental principle that developed countries should take the lead in combating climate change, and re-emphasized the urgent need for the establishment of quantified emission reduction commitments for the second and subsequent commitment periods under the Kyoto Protocol, the document said.
Scientific research shows several factors are causing climate change, a growingly thorny and critical problem for the whole human being, including plate tectonics, solar output, orbital variations, volcanism, ocean variability and human influences.
Presently the scientific consensus is human activity is very likely a major cause for the rapid increase in global average temperatures over the past several decades.
The 15th NAM summit is slated for Wednesday and Thursday in this Red Sea resort city of Egypt with the theme of "International Solidarity for Peace and Development."
Founded in September 1961, NAM now groups 118 member states, 16 observer countries and 9 observer organizations. The movement focuses on striving for interests of developing countries all over the world, represents nearly two-thirds of UN member countries and comprises 55 percent of the world population.
(Xinhua News Agency July 12, 2009)
