The international climate change talks must continue, and trust must be instilled in the process, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday. "We need the international process to continue, building on what we could agree in the Copenhagen Accord and finding new ways to instill trust back into the process," Barroso said in the letter sent to European Union leaders.
The international climate change talks must continue, and trust must be instilled in the process, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday.

"We need the international process to continue, building on what we could agree in the Copenhagen Accord and finding new ways to instill trust back into the process," Barroso said in the letter sent to European Union leaders.

Barroso said he will ask newly appointed Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard to consult with other nations on how to move the negotiations forward. Barroso will then brief the leaders as they meet at the end of March, he said.

At the United Nations-sponsored climate conference in Copenhagen in December, some countries were able to agree on a minimal accord, which vaguely calls for action to limit global warming. However, a handful of countries prevented that deal from being officially approved by the full assembly of more that 190 nations.

Barroso also said that one priority is to use the billions of U.S. dollars some industrialized countries and the European Union have pledged to give--between now and 2012--to help developing nations in their fight against climate change and its consequences.

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