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Doha talks invite the rich to simple reality

Another climate change conference started yesterday here in Doha. It has been given full ceremonial look by Qatar and the Qatar who took over the chairman's seat declared that this was a golden opportunity for the people to protect the planet earth. Well we all appreciate Qatar's initiatives, and support its efforts therefore urge the high carbon producing nations especially the most industrialized nations to take the lead. When the Copenhagen summit was held in 2009, I was in Brunei, and in that small country with about 300000 people, we journalists took special interest, reported and wrote opinions on the developments of the conference. Brunei with a small population and small in size,I appreciate its ruler's commitment to protect the country's forests. Its main revenue comes from petroleum but the country contribute its share towards carbon cutting effort. If a country reserves over 70% of its land cover for forests, it should be a genuine model of protector