UN Climate Change Panel session in Budapest, 9th-11th April, 2008

Dr. David Gazdag, the founder and Zoltan Bathó, the COO of Klímafa Ltd. has participated in the opening ceremony of the IPCC’s annual session held in Budapest at the Hungarian Academy of Science. After the ceremony, as an outreach event of the international IPCC session, the Central European University of Budapest has hosted a 2 days forum about the Hungarian climate change situation.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will not stop preparing its regular global reports, the next one is due in 2014, chairman of IPCC Rajendra Pachauri said on Thursday, at the closing of a four-day session held in Budapest. 

Diana Urge-Vorsatz, one of the over 2,000 scientists who authored the latest report in 2007, said there have been doubts about the future of the regular reports as scientists wondered where research on the subject was headed.

Pachauri said the next report will aim to look for regional rather than global scenarios and possible solutions, and highlight the economic and social aspects of climate change.

At its Budapest session, IPCC adopted a special report on climate change and water management, pointing to the urgent need to adapt to heavier rains, flooding and drought.

Attending a conference organised by the Budapest-based Central European University (CEU) to tie in with the IPCC session, scientist Istvan Lang called for the speedy implementation of Hungary's National Climate Change Strategy, starting with the first two-year action plan which needs to focus on reducing greenhouse gases. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has launched a new research project, entitled Climate Change and Safety, to deal with the social aspects and unforeseeable disasters inherent in global warming.

The IPCC is tasked to evaluate the risk of climate change caused by human activity and its main activity is publishing special reports on topics relevant to the implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Hungary's Environment Ministry has launched an awareness-raising programme on climate change and invited 100 large companies to participate in designing an action plan, Environment Minister Gabor Fodor told MTI at a climate change event on Thursday.

 
Source: The Budapest Times - http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6889&Itemid=27