UN General Assembly
2008

Strategy of the Royal Government of Cambodia — in order to cope with that challenging issue. Cambodia highly appreciates the valuable contributions of development partners and donors in terms of financial and material support over the years. With our demining experience and as part of our contribution to international peace, security and development, Cambodia has dispatched its third group of 135 deminers of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces to the Sudan for mine clearance activities under the umbrella of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. We are now confronted more than ever with increasing natural disasters, from floods to droughts, from tsunamis to storms and global warming, to name just a few that are caused mostly by climate change. Nowadays, industrialized countries consume 75 per cent of the world’s energy and produce 80 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, while developing countries, which produce little of such gas and have essentially agricultural economies, are the main victims of increasing global warming and continuing climate change. According to a report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if the