Regarding COP15, Al Gore said recently in a Politico interview that China is ready to work for an agreement, as is India. Infact, he says the two countries are working in tandem toward the global goal. Gore cited Mexico and Bangladesh as two of several developing countries committed to pay into an adaptation fund to avoid climate catastrophe, and notes Egypt is focused on a positive outcome of a binding, international treaty at the upcoming climate conferences:
"The good news is that China really wants an agreement and is really prepared to accept obligations that move the world toward an agreement, and they've marked this as the key challenge for them -- there is broad consensus in every aspect. India has said the same thing, and China and India have created a partnership, a duality of purpose, on this matter. China and India are prepared to move. Mexico and Bangladesh are among those nondeveloped countries that have now said they will contribute to the adaptation fund, not just look to be recipients from it. I was in Egypt [recently], and the mood has completely transformed there. They've now begun to focus on the fact that 40 percent of their agriculture and a huge percentage of their population are in the Nile Delta, less than 1 meter above sea level of the Mediterranean. And the prospects of at least a 1-meter sea level increase this century -- that's the minimum that is coming -- really concentrated the mind, as they say."
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