ADDRESS BY MR GODFREY GOMWE, CHAIR, WCA ENERGY & CLIMATE COMMITTEE, CHIEF EXCECUTIVE, ANGLO AMERICAN

我们都聚集在华沙参加第十九届联合国气候变化框架公约缔约方会议。第19次外空会议是朝着我们都希望在2015年在巴黎达成全面气候协议的方向迈出的重要一步。政府间气候变化专门委员会今年9月发表的《气候科学报告》强调了对气候变化采取行动的紧迫性。这份报告强调，如果我们要限制全球气温上升到2度以下，那么迫切需要限制二氧化碳的排放量。它强调了确保2015年在巴黎达成新协议的必要性。气候变化是一个复杂而具有挑战性的问题。没有简单的解决办法。气候变化的挑战还必须从继续努力解决全球贫困问题的角度来看待，2009年达成的《哥本哈根协议》强调，必须平衡解决气候变化的目标和消除发展中国家贫困的迫切需要。我认为，这些需要可以更加平衡，我认为它们可以而且必须作为综合优先事项来对待。这些问题是密不可分的。世界上最不发达国家需要获得低成本能源，但它们也最容易受到旨在减少人为温室气体排放的政策的影响。

We are all gathered here in Warsaw for the 19th Conference of the  Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate  Change. COP19 is an important step towards what we all hope will be a  comprehensive climate agreement in Paris in 2015. The urgency of acting on climate change was highlighted by the release  of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on climate  science this September. That report highlighted the urgent need to limit  emissions of carbon dioxide if we are to limit global temperature rises  below 2 degrees. It highlights the need to ensure that we do reach a new  agreement in Paris in 2015.Climate change is a complex and challenging issue. There are no easy  solutions. The challenge of climate change must also be seen in the light  of continuing efforts to address poverty across the globe.The Copenhagen Accord, agreed in 2009, highlighted the need to  balance the objectives of addressing climate change and the urgent  need to eradicate poverty in the developing world. I believe these needs  can be more than balanced, I believe they can and must be treated as  integrated priorities. These issues are inextricably linked. The world’s least developed  countries need access to low cost energy, but they are also the most  vulnerable to the impacts of policies aimed at reducing anthropogenic  greenhouse gas emissions.