UN General Assembly
2010

can ensure that future generations will have a world that is better balanced and guarantees a better future for humankind. In that regard, the delegation of Côte d’Ivoire welcomes the significant progress of the United 10-55396 10 Nations Conference on Climate Change, held from 7 to 18 December 2009 in Copenhagen. Although the principle of a legally binding accord to succeed the Kyoto Protocol after 2012 was not reached, the hopes promoted by that meeting largely justified its being held. Moreover, the significant progress achieved confirms us in that opinion. Among the advances made we would mention, inter alia, the consensus on the goals for stabilizing the temperature rise at 2°C, the creation of a mechanism to mobilize financial resources for the absorption of greenhouse gas emissions by forests, and the commitment of developed countries to provide $30 billion for the period 2010 to 2012, and $100 billion as of 2020 for measures to adapt to climate change in developing countries. The diligent implementation of those measures should allow vulnerable States such as my own to