UN General Assembly
2008

Japanese initiative Cool Earth 50. We are also of the view that, to help reverse climate change, we will need to preserve nature’s biodiversity as much as possible and to put an end to the ongoing deforestation in the world, especially in the least developed countries, by assisting people in finding sources of income other than deforestation. It is also important for us to actively promote world public participation in the issue by mobilizing public awareness of the absolute necessity to work together to struggle against global warming and climate change. We should forge a shared awareness of climate change caused by industrialization, which is the other side of the coin of development. We need to mobilize the support of all countries, especially the industrialized developed nations, to respect and implement the Framework Convention and its Kyoto Protocol. I would like to take this opportunity to call on the United Nations to organize a world summit on climate change so that the issue will remain at the top of world leaders’ agendas and to ensure that concrete and timely