World Forum advocates urgent climate action

The Second Annual World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment has called on governments to put together their own coherent strategies to tackle climate change “following the disappointment of Copenhagen” last December. Sir David King, founding director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, which organised the World Forum, said that individual nations and groups of nations need to take action now to develop strategies which will lead over the next forty years to the full, global containment of greenhouse gas emissions. “Copenhagen was a wakeup call and clearly showed we need to rethink how we move to a defossilised economy. We need to develop a series of matching frameworks that work for regions and for countries, and set out a clear pathway to mitigate against climate change,” said King. President Mikhail Gorbachev, founding president of Green Cross International and chairman of the Climate Change Task Force, said: “It is of paramount importance that we now bring all countries on board and develop structures which can converge towards a new global climate agreement.”