UN talks on climate 'turning point' to start

The assistance provided by leaders and is committed to reducing emissions above all issuers - led by China, the United States, Russia and India - have raised hopes for an agreement after lengthy negotiations over the past two years .

"Copenhagen is already a turning point in the international response to climate change," Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat.

South Africa added a new momentum on the eve of the event, saying Sunday that reduce carbon emissions 34 percent below projected levels by 2020 if rich countries financial and technological furnished.

World leaders did not attend the last time the environment ministers of the world agreed the UN pact on climate beginning, the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. Copenhagen will be the largest gathering of climate in history with 15,000 participants from 192 countries.

In a conference room outside wind turbines generating clean energy, Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen and Lars Løkke Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the panel of UN climate experts, will be among the speakers at the opening session Monday.

Plans for world leaders to attend and hopes to have illuminated Rasmussen said last month it had run out of time to arrange a full legal treaty in 2009. The objective of Copenhagen is a politically binding agreement, and a new term in 2010 for the legal details.

Some 56 newspapers from 45 countries, including The Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais and Toronto Star published a joint editorial Monday urging the rich and the poor to join in Copenhagen.

"Basically, the agreement must be agreed between the rich and the developing world," he said. "Social justice demands that the industrialized world deeper into their pockets. Many of us, especially in the developed world will have to change our lifestyle."

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The Kyoto pact obliges existing binds industrialized nations to reduce emissions until 2012 and even his supporters admit it's only a prick in global temperatures to rise, especially since Washington did not join its allies in the ratification the pact.

This time, the idea is to get action by all major emitters like China and India to help avert more droughts, desertification, forest fires, species extinctions and rising seas.

The meeting will test the extent to which developing countries attach to entrenched positions, for example, that rich nations must cut their greenhouse gases by at least 40 percent in 2020 - far deeper than the objectives that are offered.

De Boer wants developed nations to agree on deep cuts in greenhouse emissions by 2020 and reach immediately, $ 10 billion a year in new funds to help poor people cope. And he wants developing nations to curb their emissions start to rise.

"It takes money to make new, real and significant," he said.

De Boer said on Monday Pachauri deal with a leak scandal e-mails from a British university that skeptics say some researchers exaggarated show evidence of warming.

But he said the UN process of review of climate science was well insulated against intrusion.

"I do not think there is any process at any place out there that is systematic, complete and transparent that," he said.