STORY: Developed countries need to shoulder due responsibilities for climate change: former UN official
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 30, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 6, 2023
LENGTH: 0:01:18
LOCATION: Dubai
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT

SHOTLIST:
1. various of COP28
2. SOUNDBITE (English): ERIK SOLHEIM, Former UN under-secretary-general                               
3. various of COP28

STORYLINE:

Developed countries that have caused the major part of global warming should take on their due responsibilities for climate change, a former senior UN official has said.
   
SOUNDBITE (English): ERIK SOLHEIM, Former UN under-secretary-general
"We have only one planet and we share it. If you destroy it, humanity will go (disappear). Europe, North America, Japan, and a few other most developed countries in the world, those are the countries who have caused the problem."

Taking into account their carbon missions in history, those rich developed countries are emitters that have produced the major part of greenhouse gases in the world, Solheim said during the ongoing COP28 climate talks.

Even at present, in per capita terms, carbon emission of the United States is still many times higher than that of some Asian and African countries, he said.

Solheim urged those developed nations to face up to the responsibilities and offer more help to developing countries in coping with the challenges brought by climate change.
    
COP28, or the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 in the United Arab Emirates.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Dubai.
(XHTV)