Environment minister confident of carbon neutral declaration
09 Nov 2009, 7:58 AM
Environment Minister Mohamed Aslam said he was confident participants at the two-day climate change summit would adopt a declaration to go carbon neutral.
“It’s positive thinking that they have about a carbon neutral goal. Based on their statements and interventions we have written a draft declaration and circulated it to them,” he told Minivan News at the end of the first day of negotiations.
Aslam said the participants would now go and make necessary changes before returning to the final day tomorrow to hopefully sign the declaration.
The environment minister said the worst-case scenario would be if there was no consensus, but added he was certain some countries would be willing to sign.
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