Cuba Reiterated Need to Modify Patterns of Production and Consumption for an Agreement at Copenhagen

United Nations, Nov 25, (RHC).— Cuba reiterated on Wednesday at the United Nations the need to modify the current patterns of production and consumption and urged a path towards a truly sustainable economic model.

Cuba´s ambassador to the UN, Pedro Nuñez Mosquera said during an informal meeting at the General Assembly that human survival requires an energy revolution worldwide.

The Cuban diplomat presented what he called 8 truths that cannot be ignored regarding climate change, the first of which lies in the transformation of ways of production and consumption and push forwards an international energy revolution.

Another reality is a new more rigorous regime of commitments in the reduction of emissions for the developed nations and to adopt a strong action plan in financing and transference of technologies for the developing countries.

There is also the responsibility of the industrialized nations in complying with the commitments of the Convention on Climate Change and the rejection of initiates that attempts to evade their duties regarding the reduction of gases that provoke global warming.

Pedro Nuñez Mosquera pointed out that, prior to the Conference in Copenhagen, the developed nations do not show the political will in reducing its emissions to proportional levels.

The Cuban ambassador to the UN also said that an agreement to a just and balanced accord in the field is still possible “if we face the negotiating process with a new political attitude”.