UN General Assembly
2007

achieve it without compromising economic development and human progress, if we start to act now. Climate change demands a coordinated and comprehensive global response. As enshrined in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities should be the basis for addressing the challenges of climate change. Mandatory targets for emissions reduction are necessary in order to stabilize the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere at safe levels. Industrialized countries should assume leadership and demonstrate the necessary political will in adopting long-term commitments to reduce emissions. While sea levels are rising, the Himalayan glaciers are retreating, and surrounding areas are witnessing an increasing intensity of disasters induced by climate-change, such as glacial lake outbursts, extreme rainfalls, recurring floods and massive landslides. The President returned to the Chair. It is ironic that the world’s most vulnerable countries, such as least developed and small island countries, get the worst affects of climate change although they are the least responsible for the same. In the new compact in climate change, there should be