Environment Agency Director General Yoriko Kawaguchi said Tuesday that financial and technical support for developing countries in tackling global warming is the key to ensuring the success of the upcoming sixth Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP6).
Speaking at a press conference on last week's unofficial ministerial meeting for COP6, Kawaguchi said, "There was stinging criticism of developed countries for providing insufficient technical and financial support to developing countries in tackling global warming, which was promised in the Kyoto Protocol."
The unofficial meeting was held Wednesday and Thursday last week in the Netherlands, with ministers from 34 countries participating to generate momentum toward ratification of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas cuts.