VietNamNet Bridge – Many experts and economists who attended the seminar entitled “Review the Vietnam economy of 2009 and the prospects for post-2010” in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho on August the 6-7^th said that Vietnam needs to develop a plan to confront the water shortage situation of the Mekong River.

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- China and India, the developing nations with the highest carbon-dioxide emissions, want U.S. President- elect Barack Obama to demonstrate more commitment in tackling climate change, delegates at United Nations talks in Poland said. Obama has pledged to bring U.S. output of greenhouse-gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020. That’s still above the limit the world’s biggest economy would have been required to meet by 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol, a global warming treaty the U.S. never ratified. It’s also short of a European Union pledge to cut the gases 20 percent from 1990 levels by 2020.

POZNAN, Poland - Climate change could become the main driver of refugee movements, uprooting millions each year, a UN official said Wednesday as the United Nations and Red Cross urged a stronger global effort to help people face the fallout from global warming. Worse storms, more flooding and decreasing rainfall, which are likely to hit the world's poorest people hardest, are among the expected consequences as climate change takes hold.  Agreeing how to help poor countries adapt is a major challenge as negotiators work on a new climate change treaty to take effect in 2013.

Aid specialists support a claim by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that efforts to adapt to climate change could create "millions of jobs" if enough funding is available.

Commissioner Stavros Dimas, EU Commissioner for Energy, sets out the European agenda for addressing the challenge of climate change. I would now like to look, in particular, at the role of the UK and her European partners in setting the agenda for addressing the challenge of climate change.

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