Chairman of the White
House Council on Environmental Quality James Connaughton hosts the
opening ceremony of the second Major Economies Meeting on Energy
Security and Climate Change at Honolulu, Hawaii, on January 30,
2008.
The second Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and
Climate Change, sponsored by the United States, opened?at
Honolulu in Hawaii?on Wednesday.
Representatives from 16 countries, the United Nations, the
European Union and the European Commission were present at the
meeting which was held at the East-West Center.
Vice Chairman of
China's National Development and Reform Commission Xie Zhenhua
attends the second Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and
Climate Change at Honolulu, Hawaii, on January 30,
2008.
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), James Connaughton, Chairman
of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Dan Price,
Assistant to US President George W. Bush and Deputy National
Security Advisor for International and Economic Affairs, and Xie
Zhenhua, Vice Chairman of China's National Development and Reform
Commission, are among the attendees.
Environmentalists
demonstrate outside the venue of the second Major Economies Meeting
on Energy Security and Climate Change at Honolulu, Hawaii, on
January 30, 2008.
Yvo de Boer said at the meeting that "there is no time left that
the world can lose," adding that "all efforts now have to focus on
getting on the negotiations on the climate change deal off the
ground to be ready by 2009."
The two-day meeting is aimed at "developing a detailed
contribution in support of the Bali Roadmap for UN Negotiations, "
the organizers said.
Bush held the first round of the meeting in September 2007 under
an initiative he proposed in June in the face of intensifying
international pressure for Washington to do more to battle
greenhouse-gas emissions.
Environmentalists
demonstrate outside the venue of the second Major Economies Meeting
on Energy Security and Climate Change at Honolulu, Hawaii, on
January 30, 2008.
(Xinhua News Agency January 31, 2008)
