Cambodia supports Protocol Project of Cold Earth in 2050

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia supports the Project of Cold Earth in 2050, which aims to protect the earth's environment from climate change and global warming, said Prime Minister Hun Sen here on Thursday.

"Cambodia strongly supports the Project of Cold Earth in 2050, which was set up in Kyoto to reduce environmental change around the world," he told the construction ceremony of counter-flood facilities on the Tonle Sap River bank in Phnom Penh.

Meanwhile, he appealed for the people living in Phnom Penh to join their hands to clean the city, protect the environment, care about their health and improve the sanitation.

About 9,000 tons of polluted water and wastes flowed from the city into the Tonle Sap River each day, he said.

The facilities were built in the spirit of environment protection and will help reduce pollution and safeguard climate security, he added.

Hun Sen: Let's implement the Kyoto Protocol ... after we cut down all our forests

Apr 3, 2007
DPA

Phnom Penh - Asia and the world must implement the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions or risk an escalation of environmental and humanitarian disasters, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday.

Speaking at an economic conference, Hun Sen said environmental issues remained the biggest factor affecting humans and animals alike.

'Our region and people are in endless danger if environmental issues cannot be solved fairly,' Hun Sen told delegates and the media. 'Weather changes bring floods and droughts.'

He said destruction of the ozone layer and temperature increases would lead to natural disasters 'and impact on the region and our world more and more seriously'.

'I believe we can solve this problem by working hard to implement the Kyoto Agreement,' he said.

Cambodia became a signatory to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's Kyoto Protocol when it hosted the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in 2002.

Signatories agree to limitations for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Cambodia, which remains a largely agrarian-based economy, suffers almost annually from both severe floods and droughts, which experts say have become worse partly due to climate change.

However Cambodia itself has been widely criticized by environmental activists in the past for not doing enough to stop harmful practices including rampant illegal logging.