World major economies Wednesday pledged to combat climate change in accordance with "common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities".
Leaders from Group of Eight (G8) nations and those from China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Australia and EU held an outreach working session on climate change and energy security here Wednesday on the third of the G8 summit.
"Climate change is one of the great global challenges of our time," said the leaders in the declaration, "Conscious of our leadership role in meeting such challenges, we, the leaders of the world's major economies, both developed and developing, commit to combat climate change in accordance with our common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and confront the interlinked challenges of sustainable development, including energy and food security, and human health."
The leaders said they support a shared vision for long-term cooperative action, including a long term global goal for emissionreductions.
Achieving such a long term global goal requires respective mid-term goals, commitments and actions, taking into account differences in social and economic conditions, energy mix, demographics, and infrastructure, among other factors, said the declaration.
In this regard, the developed major economies will implement, consistent with international obligations, economy-wide mid-term goals and take corresponding actions in order to achieve absolute emission reductions and, where applicable, first stop the growth of emissions as soon as possible, said the leaders.
At the same time, the developing major economies will pursue nationally appropriate mitigation actions, supported and enabled by technology, financing and capacity-building, with a view to achieving a deviation from business as usual emissions, the declaration said.
The participants of the meeting said that their countries would continue to work constructively together to promote the success of the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009.
Source:Xinhua
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