Reaching climate deal will boost private sector ? UN

UNITED NATIONS. April 24. KAZINFORM Global business leaders at a United Nations-backed gathering today stressed the importance of reaching an ambitious climate change deal later this year, noting that such a pact will spur the growth of a ?green? economY, Kazinform refers to the UN News Service.
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Nations are expected to conclude negotiations on a successor pact to the Kyoto Protocol ? the legally binding emissions reduction regime whose first commitment period ends in 2012 ? at December?s UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Over 400 delegates at a Business for the Environment (B4E) summit in Paris, hosted by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Global Compact, underscored in a closing manifesto that agreement on a new climate regime is crucial, with recovering from the current economic turmoil requiring investments in clean technologies and sustainable infrastructure systems, Kazinform cites the UN News Service. See www.un.org for full version.
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