How to heal the world in six steps, COP 15
Release Date: 2009-03-16
A recipe for saving the world was yesterday handed over to the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. At the final session of the International Scientific Congress Climate Change in Copenhagen, a preliminary paper with six key messages was presented showing the way.
For three days 2,500 scientific delegates from 80 countries have been presented to updated science of global warming at the 'Climate Change Congress' in Copenhagen, and although their conclusions are only preliminary, there is no mistaking the message:
The scientists urge politicians to act now. Only a rapid, sustained and effective action can reduce greenhouse emissions and prevent abrupt or irreversible climate shifts.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen got the message.
»Some people and countries question whether it is realistic to agree to a global deal in nine months. I say, we must. Waiting a year or two will only make the decisions even tougher. I say, we stick with the road map. But we also have to realize that this will demand intense negotiations in 2009 and a very close involvement at the highest level of government,« he said.
He stated that business as usual is dead.
»Green growth is the answer to our climate problem – as well as to our economic problems. Low carbon growth is a long term sustainable growth... high carbon growth kills itself in the long run,« he told the delegates.
He interpreted the scientific results and presented his own political conclusion:
»We must come to an agreement here in Copenhagen in December. We must set a long term target. We must commit to short term efforts. The rich must assist the poor. Green growth is the future. If we fail to act, we fall,« he said with great applause from the audience.
A full synthesis report will be published in June 2009 and handed to the decision makers ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in December.
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| Company: | COP 15 |
| Country: | Denmark |
| Url: | http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=875 |