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Understanding the challenges behind Climate Change
The critical threats which arise from accelerating climate change are now the focus of intense scientific analysis and political and public concern. Recent scientific evidence demonstrates that we have less time than we thought to take radical and urgent action to contain the risks of irreversible climate change.
Climate change is only one of a number of global issues which are now reaching a critical phase. In its scale, its global extent and its acceleration, it is the prototype of a number of issues which confront the world community, such as for example: the ecosystems crisis and the overuse of the biological resources of the planet; increasing competition for scarce but vital resources such as energy and water; instabilities and vulnerabilities in the world financial and economic systems; growing resistance and rising inequities in the processes of globalization; and the abiding poverty, deprivation and exclusion of an increasing number of people as world population grows.
Recognising the need for a more inclusive, strategic approach, the Club of Rome is convening the International Conference on “Managing the Interconnected Challenges of Climate Change, Energy Security, Ecosystems and Water”. The conference will be attended by leading international experts for climate change, such as the Director of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri.
In conjunction with the conference Dr. Pachauri will give a public lecture on November 6, 2008 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) followed by a panel discussion of international experts.
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Photos: Courtesy of Douglas Lees
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International Conference on Managing the Interconnected Challenges of Climate Change, Energy Security, Ecosystems and Water. Winterthur, Switzerland.
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Climate change: what's next?
by R.K.Pachauri
Presentation 6th November 2008
Zurich, ETH University
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