During the United Nations meeting on Sunday, environmental activists urged nations to push through the development of renewable energy to prevent environmental problems and nuclear disasters like what happened in Fukushima, Japan.
One of the issues being raised at UN meeting in Bangkok Thailand was the formation of Green Climate Fund which was basically for helping the developing nations to get clean-energy technology. Nations had agreed to organize $100 billion a year, starting in 2020 however a “transition committee” to scheme the fund which was supposedly formed last month however it was still being discussed together with how the fund would be exactly be raised.
The technology committees and other institutions who would be implementing the resolutions were still negotiating. The World Wide Fund for Nature said that the talks in Bangkok needed to compromise at Cancun and "boost the overall ambition levels of the talks if we are to avert the worst consequences of climate change."
Greenpeace, another non-governmental organization, said that in light of the Japan disaster, governments represented in Bangkok were obliged to speed up changes in their energy sectors and promote green technologies.
"The world does not have to choose between climate disasters and disasters caused by dangerous energy like nuclear. We can choose a safe future where our societies are powered by renewable energy," it said.
As the conference began, activists from Asian and African countries began a weeklong protest outside the United Nations building, carrying an effigy of Uncle Sam to symbolize the role of the industrialized world in climate change. They said rich nations owed a huge climate debt to be repaid to developing ones by funding and technology transfer.
The global effort to avert climate change began with a 1992 U.N. treaty, when the world's nations promised to do their best to rein in carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases emitted by industry, transportation and agriculture.
Progress, however, has been slow and many scientists warn that dramatic reductions in emissions will be needed to substantially slow the melting of the polar ice caps and glaciers, the rise of sea levels and other consequences of global warming.
