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EU: UN needs bigger environment role
EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told the UN's climate change conference on Friday that the UN should upgrade its 'environmental programme' into a full-fledge UN Environmental Organisation. "We in the EU have proposed to look seriously at the way the UN deals with environmental issues," Dimas said. "We have proposed to strengthen the environmental voice inside the UN, notably through strengthening UNEP, and upgrading it into a UN Environmental Organisation. We believe that this way, the UN will be better equipped to deal with today's pressing environmental issues, from water to air pollution, to biodiversity, to climate change."
"There is no way a single group of countries will be able on its own to tackle climate change," Dimas said. "If there is one example of why we need to work jointly, at the international level, it is the fight against climate change." Dimas said global cuts in greenhouse gas emission can only be achieved with global action. The United States, he said, must be first to act.
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