IMAGE: Al Gore and Zapatero
Al Gore calls for tightening the Kyoto Protocol . In Spain, all seem to agree with what we postulated.
• February 8, 2007 - Agencies / CA •
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, a staunch activist in the fight against climate change, warned on Wednesday in Madrid of the most pernicious effects of climate change, and ensures that the company has "many weapons" to combat it, including cited the Kyoto Protocol, although committed to harden the multinational agreement.
Gore inaugurated in Madrid the first meeting on Energy, Municipality and Global Warming with a lecture entitled 'The greatest problem of humanity today: global warming and our action to combat it. "
Former U.S. vice president, who has turned his efforts in recent years in the fight against climate change, the same arguments presented in his film "An Inconvenient Truth ', with which it is nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary.
The day before Gore was greeted by the Prime Minister received at La Moncloa. Zapatero described the problem of global warming "the greatest challenge humanity."
In his presentation, accompanied his political involvement of numerous videos and photographs that show climate change and contrast past and present snapshots of Kilimanjaro, from Patagonia, the Alps, Siberia and the Himalayas. He warned, for example, that in the Himalayas born seven major rivers that supply drinking water to 40 percent of the population.
The former vice president with Bill Clinton and current candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Prince of Asturias International Cooperation reviewed the causes of global warming and its main effects and noted the increase in temperature, to higher level sea, the changing seasons, to the extinction of species or the emergence of new diseases.
Al Gore also warned of the proliferation of lobbyists who question climate change and noted that the same happened in the 50's and 60's when certain organizations raised doubts about the harmful effects of snuff
During the conference, Gore complained repeatedly that the United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol to combat climate change but said the initiatives at the federal level, such as California and City have emerged in your country to combat the phenomenon. Former Vice President
impact on that man has achieved significant technological challenges, among which cited the moon landing, and was convinced that it has the technological capacity to address this problem.
said that "not a political issue but moral," which is also a "generational challenge" and was convinced that the current generation is called upon to behave in a responsible manner.
In the same vein, the Minister of Environment of Spain, Cristina Narbona, said that tackling climate change is also a challenge "technological" challenge "ethical" because the poorest countries are least have contributed to this global phenomenon, however, have the most impact.
The minister recalled that the environmental movement were labeled alarmist and exaggerated when they started decades ago to warn of climate change and said that now there is scientific evidence that warming is is occurring.
Narbonne and Al Gore met before the start of the day and the minister took the opportunity to tell you about that Spain has promoted measures to combat global warming, among which the National Strategy to Combat Climate Change, the draft will be presented on day 13 to the National Climate Council.
Gore held that Spain has the capacity to lead in Europe to combat climate change and Madrid in turn may be the Community to head the policy within the country.
Al Gore was nominated for the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2007, a jury will meet in the first week of June in Oviedo, for various personalities and cultural institutions worldwide, among which are several universities that have found that Al Gore is one of the most important and influential leaders of the world in the fight against climate change.
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