Published: Saturday November 28, 2009 MYT 10:03:00 AM
Legal treaty for climate change wanted
Commonwealth countries, including Malaysia, have agreed to press for a legally binding treaty to be implemented during the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Many Commonwealth countries are victims of climate change. Some have said that if global warming continues, small island states might totally sink. For many of them, this is a matter of life and death.
The environmental threat was now a global challenge which would affect security and stability in the years ahead.
Most of the countries under threat were the most vulnerable and least able to withstand the adverse effects of climate change.
Failure in Copenhagen is not an option
If the world fails to deliver a political agreement at the UN climate conference in December, it will be “the whole global democratic system not being able to deliver results in one of the defining challenges of our century"
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