Beirut – 1 December2009: Today, The parliamentary committee of General works and transport and energy and water and the UN development program in the Lebanese Parliament held a meeting on climate change and to discuss the policies raised in Copenhagen summit. The meeting was attended by representatives from the parliament, NGOs, bodies from the public and private sectors and representatives of international organizations.
After study and discussion the attendees released the statement of “Beirut call to Copenhagen Summit” to support the Lebanese diplomatic position in the most critical talks in the history of humankind on climate change which will be launched
next week. The statement included points that stressed the importance of this crucial negotiations and demanded world leaders and representatives to endorse an ambitious and binding and fair treaty in Copenhagen that include several issues: