Maldives urges new global consensus on climate change

UN: The Maldives urged on Tuesday the international community to build a new global consensus on climate change at the forthcoming UN climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, this December.

The conference “offers a change to overcome the failed promises and missed opportunities of the past, and to build a new global consensus on climate change,” Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid said at the general debate of the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly.

He said that there is “a real sense of international momentum” leading toward the UN climate change conference in Bali.

“We must take collective responsibility and agree to an integrated and comprehensive approach to climate change that recognizes and covers all four pillars of climate change policy - mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer and funding,” he said.

New York, Wednesday, Xinhua.