Tokyo - Senior officials from the world's 20 major greenhouse gas emitters gathered in Japan Friday to attend a two-day dialogue on global warming over the weekend. Members of the Group of 20 (G-20) were expected to discuss a climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, environmental technology transfer and financing.
At the meeting, Japan was to explain its initiative to help developing nations fight climate change with a 10-billion-dollar aid package, which was proposed in January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
But non-governmental organizations say that closer consultation is needed between donors and recipients for effective use of a multilateral fund proposed by Japan, Britain and the United States.
The United States plans to provide about 200 billion yen (1.94 billion dollars) and Britain plans to provide 170 billion yen.
Industrialized nations must increase funds and environmental technology transfers to developing nations, Kyodo News Agency quoted Yang Ailun of Greenpeace China as saying.
The G-20 meeting involves China, India, South Korea, Mexico, Australia, Indonesia, Spain, Poland, South Africa, Iran, Brazil, Nigeria and the Group of Eight nations.
The two-day dialogue to be held in Chiba City, near Tokyo, is officially called the fourth ministerial meeting of the G-8 Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development.
The group accounts for about 80 per cent of the world's carbon emissions.
