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3rd Session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
PR2364
10/12/1997
10/12/1997
| At the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United | Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Kyoto, Japan this week, Malta was represented by H.E. Ambassador Saviour F. Borg, the Permanent Representative to the United Nations Evironment Programme. In his Statement on 10th December Ambassador Borg stressed that those States which have been the main polluters and are still the major polluters should bear the responsibility of their actions and take the necessary measures to resolving this problem. |
| Malta as a small island state supports the position being taken by | the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), and that of the Group of 77 and China, in advocating a reduction by developed states of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide emissions by at least 7.5% of 1990 levels by 2005, by 15% by 2010 and by an additional 20% by 2020. Malta therefore viewed the proposal tabled by the European Union as a welcome and commendable suggestion. |
| Malta in fact is itself willing to go as far as possible in | addressing energy management, on a national level. In part fulfilment of its commitments under the Climate Convention, the Government of Malta has introduced eco-taxes on the price of fossil fuels, and the revision of licence fees for motor vehicles according to the engine capacity. Other recently introduced measures include the introduction of incentives to use energy in off-peak hours and the removal of certain subsidies in energy consumption. |
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