Bangkok hosts key climate summit
30/3/2007 BBC Climate change activists have also gathered for the summit Climate change experts are meeting in Bangkok for a major conference to discuss ways to combat global warming.It is the third such summit this year held by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Those attending hope to finalise a report on how the world can mitigate rising levels of greenhouse gases. A draft version of the report, seen by the BBC, says it is possible to make a real difference, but countries need to implement policies immediately. Environmentalists argue that while it will need investment to put these policies into practice, the eventual consequences of doing nothing far outweigh the cost of tackling global climate change now.
’Compelling reasons’ for change At least 400 scientists and experts from about 120 countries are attending the third session of the IPCC, the UN’s leading body on global warming. Two reports issued earlier this year by the same UN panel warned that the earth was already warming considerably, and that mankind was almost certainly to blame. They predicted severe consequences including droughts, floods, storms, heat waves and rising seas. The science certainly provides a lot of compelling reasons for action. Rajendrat Pachauri, IPCC chairman