HONG KONG: Asian nations on Sunday welcomed the provisional climate change deal struck by the major powers at the UN summit in Copenhagen, saying it paved the way for consensus over carbon emissions cuts.
The Copenhagen Accord, passed on Saturday after two weeks of frantic negotiations, was condemned elsewhere as a backdoor deal that violated UN democracy, excluded the poor and doomed the world to disastrous climate change.
But governments from China to Indonesia spoke of "significant and positive results", "a direction for negotiations" and satisfaction over a conclusion that addressed their concerns.
With the deal, "there is a direction for negotiations in the middle of 2010 in Germany," Yudhoyono said. he prime minister of Bangladesh, one of the nations worst-hit by global warming, said she was satisfied. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), described accord as "an agreement that will really not be the final word.
Source: The new Indian Express, Dated: 21.12.2009
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