Description
The European Economic and Social Committee, as the institutional representative of organised civil society at European Union level, approves the following message to Governments, leaders, negotiators and other parties involved with the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen and with the development and implementation of climate change policies:
"Climate change is already having adverse and possibly irreversible impacts in many parts of the world. These problems can only get worse in the years ahead if greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere at the present rate. The scientific analysis by the IPCC and other authoritative sources shows very clearly that developed countries will have to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by over 80% by 2050 if temperature rises are to be kept to safe levels. To put the world on a realistic pathway to achieve such reductions will require a 25-40% reduction by 2020, and significant efforts by emerging and developing countries."
Information
- Author(s)
- European Economic and Social Committee
- Publisher
- European Economic and Social Committee
- Place published
- Brussels
- Date / journal vol no.
- 5 November 2009
- Pages
- 2
