Blog Action Day: Climate Change - Global public opinion needs to be mobilised.
Today is Blog Action Day . The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has rightly said there is no more pressing issue on which global public opinion needs to be mobilised. The potential effect of doing nothing is dramatic. Vulnerable communities will be decimated. And according to the estimations of Sir Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economist to the World Bank, the world will lose the equivalent of 5-20% of GDP, now and forever.
The response needs to be on all levels. The Copenhagen Summit in December will seek to provide a strategic framework. But we all need to act in our daily work and lives to play our part in a healthy, sustainable, low-carbon global economy. There will be challenges, but also opportunities for growth in renewable energy and elsewhere. The site Act On Copenhagen is worth a look.
Posted at 17:54 15 October 2009 by Christopher O'Connor | Comments[0]
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