A twelve-day United Nations conference on global warming has opened in Poland with pleas for urgent action to fight climate change despite the economic slowdown. The 192-member UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is aiming to craft a new international pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol by next year.

Danish Prime Minister Anders Rasmussen: “I feel confident that the financial crisis will be overcome.
Recovery will come. However, climate change is not going to be less of a problem in the coming years. On the contrary, climate change will only grow stronger if we do not act now.”