World Officials Say Action Must Be Taken against Global Warming
24.08.2005 - Other
Environmental ministers and other officials from 23 countries met in the Arctic town of Ilulissat (Greenland), and agreed that nations must take action against global warming. However, the conference took no decisions on how to fight global warming.
Representatives of nations including the United States, Japan, China, India, Mexico and the European Union were at the informal talks hoping to smooth policy splits after Washington pulled out of the United Nations' Kyoto protocol in 2001.
Unfortunately, two things gave a bitter taste to the event:
- India's environment minister withdrew from the conference at the last minute.
- Just weeks after President Bush put his signature to the Gleneagles declaration that climate change was a serious problem facing the world, Dr Harlan Watson (the US chief climate negotiator delegate) told a Radio Greenland journalist that the US was still unconvinced by the consensus science on climate.
