LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND CHINESE REPRESENTATIVE DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER AND ENERGY SECURITY CHALLENGES
At the meeting with the Vice Chairman of China’s National Development and Reform Commission Xie Zhenhua on 16 July, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius stressed that all the countries in the world should seek to stop climate change by making efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“Lithuania’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union will make every effort to make sure that by 2015 we will have a universal, legally-binding international agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which established legally binding emissions targets for some industrialized countries,” said Linkevičius.
The Foreign Minister also pointed out that aiming for sustainable development, economic growth, safety and security, all the world’s countries had to make efforts to act on climate change, water scarcity, energy security and the challenge of mineral resource exploitation.
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